¶ Password Safe DirectConnect
¶ What is Direct Connect?
The “RDP Direct Connect” feature enables a Privileged User to download an RDP shortcut to their Desktop from Password Safe and access the Shared Account and Target Asset without having to login to the PAM Web interface. This feature is available in most installations.
Note: RDP Direct Connect supports only push two-factor authentication. An access-challenge response is not supported.
¶ Accessing the Direct Connect feature
- Log into the Password Safe web portal.
- On the Accounts page, select the tab for the type of system or application you need to access.
- Find the account in the list.
- Click the download arrow. (Save this file to your Desktop or other location on your system for future use).
- Run the file to establish a connection to the target system.
- Enter your password that you use to authenticate into Password Safe.
Once this has been completed once, the downloaded RDP file can be used going forwards.
Each Asset/ Account that a user wishes to access has a distinct RDP download.
¶ Access Policy - Approval
AS with any request in Password Safe, access policies are applied to these connection types. Depending upon the Access Policy, an approval workflow may need to be followed by your organisation to access the asset. If this is the case a message displays “Request requires approval. If the request is not approved within 5 minutes, this connection will close.”
After five minutes, the RDP client disconnects, and you can send another connection request. When the request is approved, you are automatically connected.