How does PowerBroker Password Safe manage the release of a password?
PowerBroker Password Safe manages the release of the password via several methods. Users accessing PowerBroker Password Safe through the web interface are all assigned an individual identity. Tied to this identity are the Roles that the user has been granted against individual managed accounts, or managed systems, or collections of systems. As an example, a user may be granted the ability to immediately check out a password for one managed account, may be required to go through an approval workflow to check out a password for a managed system, and may be assigned administrator rights for another collection of systems, while for other managed systems and accounts, he may have no privileges at all. Similarly, when an application is registered with PowerBroker Password Safe, the administrator defines the specific managed account(s) to which the application will have access. The application will not be able to access any passwords for managed accounts to which it has not been granted acces