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# Methods for using personal PAM accounts in Remote Desktop Manager

You can configure Remote Desktop Manager Windows to automatically launch 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 session.

#### Use PAM account to automatically launch 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 session. For this example, we will use an RDP session.
8. Navigate to the ribbon of Remote Desktop Manager and click ***Edit*** – ***User specific settings*** – ***Overwrite credentials*** – ***Linked*** ***(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.

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Note: ***User-specific settings*** are applied only for your user.
{% endhint %}

#### Prompt for PAM accounts in 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 ***File*** – ***My account settings*** – ***Devolutions Server privileged account***, and confirm that your username is correctly entered.
7. Select an RDP session, for example, and go to ***Edit*** – ***Credentials.***
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.

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

* [Devolutions Academy – Set up user vault credentials in Remote Desktop Manager](https://academy.devolutions.net/student/activity/2925723-set-up-user-vault-credentials-in-remote-desktop-manager)
* [Set up user vault credentials in Remote Desktop Manager](https://docs.devolutions.net/rdm/kb/how-to-articles/set-up-user-vault-credentials/)
* [Specific settings](https://docs.devolutions.net/rdm/commands/edit/setting-overrides/)


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