Methods for using personal PAM accounts in Remote Desktop Manager

You can configure Remote Desktop Manager Windows to automatically launch RDP sessions using a PAM account from your user vault, or to prompt you with a list of available PAM accounts at launch. Both methods rely on creating a Devolutions Server privileged account entry and linking it to your RDP session.

Use PAM account to automatically launch RDP sessions

  1. Open Remote Desktop Manager.

  2. Go to your user vault.

  3. Create a Devolutions Server privileged account entry.

  4. Enter the server information.

  5. Select your dedicated PAM account from the list.

  6. Click Add to save the entry.

  7. Go to the shared vault and select your RDP session.

  8. Navigate to the ribbon of Remote Desktop Manager and click EditUser specific settingsOverwrite credentialsLinked (user vault). From there, select the Devolutions Server privileged account you just created.

  9. Open your RDP session. You’ll be prompted to check out the selected PAM account, and the session will automatically launch using this account.

Note: User-specific settings are applied only for your user.

Prompt for PAM accounts in RDP sessions

  1. In your shared vault, create a Devolutions Server privileged account entry.

  2. Create a Devolutions Server privileged account entry.

  3. Enter your Devolutions Server URL.

  4. Enable both:

    • Use my account settings

    • Always prompt with list

  5. Click Add to save the entry.

  6. Navigate to FileMy account settingsDevolutions Server privileged account, and confirm that your username is correctly entered.

  7. Select your RDP session and go to EditCredentials.

  8. Select Linked (vault), and choose the Devolutions Server privileged account entry you created.

  9. When you double-click the RDP session, a list of available PAM accounts will appear.

Only the accounts that match your username in My account settings and that you have access to will be shown.

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