User Preferences

Users can set their preferences by clicking on their profile icon in the top right and selecting User Preferences.

General TabThe following settings are available for users under the General tab:

  • API Token: allows creating API Tokens for use in scripts. Click on the Generate API Token and Copy to Clipboard link to generate a token and copy it to clipboard automatically.

  • General Information: contains general information about your user account within your organization's framework. The information in this section cannot be edited on this page. To update your display name, username, or email, please contact your administrator.

  • Password Settings allows changing your local user password used to log in to Secret Server, or making changes to your user account's DoubleLock password. Click Create DoubleLock Password, in the pop-up enter and confirm a new password, and click Create.

Settings Tab

The following configuration settings are available for users under the Settings tab:

Preferences: personal user preferences associated to your account that control how the application looks, works, and displays data.

  • Color Mode: select Light or Dark mode.

  • Communication Time Zone: select time zone that will be used for dates when receiving communications.

  • Date Format: select date format displayed for a user in Secret Server.
  • Language: select language. Your browser language is set by default. Currently the following languages are supported: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean.
  • Login Home: select the default home page after logging in if no redirect URL is specified.
  • Time Format: select time format displayed for a user in Secret Server.

Email Settings: select what you would like to be notified about, based on the Secret events. Set the toggles to on or off to enable or disable the related settings.

  • Send Email When Dependencies Fail to Update: enables emails to be sent when dependencies fail to update.

  • Send Email When Secrets are Changed: enables emails to be sent on all changes of any secret that the user has view permission. There is a limit of one mail per five minutes per edit of the same user. For example, if user "User1" edits the secret twice within this grace period, only one email is sent.

  • Send Email When Heartbeat Fails for Secrets: when enabled, the user is emailed when a heartbeat fails for any secret the user has view permission to.

  • Send Email When Secrets are Viewed: enables emails to be sent on all views of any secret that the user has view permission. There is a limit of one email per five minutes per view of the same user. For example, if user "User1" views the secret twice within this grace period, only one email is sent.

Launcher Settings: allow setting launchers to fit the workstation needs. The settings will apply to all launchers you use where applicable. Set the toggles to on or off to enable or disable the related settings.

  • Allow Access to Printers: enable access to printers when using the launcher.

  • Allow Access to Drivers: enable access to drivers when using the launcher.

  • Allow Access to Clipboard: enable access to clipboard when using the launcher.

  • Allow Access to Smart Cards: enable access to smart cards when using the launcher.

  • Connect to Console: allows connecting to remote machines using the Remote Desktop launcher and connecting as an administrator. This is the equivalent of using the /admin or /console switch when launching Remote Desktop.

  • Use Custom Window Size: enable displaying Width and Height text boxes for the user to specify a custom window size for an RDP launcher.

Security Tab

User Sessions listed under the Security tab provide a record of known login sessions from this user account. User Sessions can be terminated which will perform a log out upon that session. To terminate a session, select it from the list, and click Terminate in the pop-up.