Can PowerBroker Password Safe manage Application to Application (A2A) and Application to Database (A2DB) credentials?
Yes. To ensure best practices, PowerBroker Password Safe replaces embedded credentials in applications and scripts. This is accomplished in two ways. First, PowerBroker Password Safe includes an API contained in operating system libraries that can be called to register an application, and once the application profile is approved, to request credentials to be used to back end data sources. The second component, the pkrun command line environment, works in a similar way. Instead of embedding credentials into commands contained in scripts, tokens are placed in the script. When the command is executed by the pkrun command line tool, the credentials replace the tokens inside of the pkrun execution. This enables the command to execute correctly without any exposed credentials.
