Unlimited Administration Mode

Unlimited administration mode is a feature designed to allow an administrator access to all secrets and folders in their Secret Server instance without explicit permission. This can be used in the instance a company has an emergency where access to a secret is needed when no users who have permission are available. Alternately, it can be used when company policies require administrators to have access to all information in the system.

For a user to be an unlimited administrator they must be assigned a role with the Unlimited Administrator permission and Unlimited Administration Mode must be enabled in Configuration settings.

To navigate to the Unlimited Administration section, select Configuration from the Administration menu, and then click Change Administration Mode. We recommend administrators have specific permissions to folders and secrets and this mode is only used temporarily to assign the correct permissions.