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Login Account Templates

There are three options for Login Account Templates in an Activity:

  • Use a specific account name — For example, to always connect the Activity as a service account might be “democorp\svc_account_name”

  • Use a mask to select a user’s unique admin account using variable substitution.

    • For Users and Groups, acceptable substitute variables that map to the users AD attributes are: %domain%, %samaccountname%, %email%, %department%, %sessionid%, %hostname%, %dnshostname%, %fqdn%, %upn-username%, %upn-domain%, %email-username%, %email-domain%, %firstname%, %lastname%, %displayname%, %fullname%

      • Example 1: “%domain%\%samaccountname%-a”, a user with an Privilege Secure login name of “sblab\jsmith” would result in a login account of “sblab\jsmith-a”
      • Example 2: “%upn-username%-a@%upn-domain%”, a user with an Privilege Secure login name of “jsmith@sblab.com” would result in a login account of “jsmith-a@sblab.com”
      • Example 3: “%email-username%-a@%email-domain%”, a user with an Privilege Secure login name of “jsmith@netwrix.com” would result in a login account of “jsmith-a@netwrix.com”
      • When a domain name is detected in the template field, i.e. contains a “\” character, the Create Local Account option has no effect

    • For Applications, the following masks are available:

      • %samaccountname%, %department%, %email%, %userprincipalname%, %displayname%

  • Use a mask to define an account that will be created locally on the target resource — For example, a mask of “%domain%_%samaccountname%” in conjunction with the Create Local Account option set to yes, will result in a local account being created using name substitution so the user “sblab\jsmith” will be connected to a local account named “sblab_jsmith”

note

The value of each mask can be customized on the Properties Tab of the Application details page. See the User, Group, & Application Details Page topic for additional information.

Functions for Login Account Templates​

first()

The first() function returns the specified number of characters starting from the beginning of the string.

%first(string stringToManipulate, int numCharactersReturned)/first%

Parameters

stringToManipulate (string)

The string or Privilege Secure Login Account Template mask to be manipulated.

numCharactersReturned (int)

The number of characters, starting from the beginning of the string, to be returned based on supplied stringToManipulate parameter.

Notes

int numCharactersReturned must be a positive number.

If int numCharactersReturned exceeds string stringToManipulate then the entire string will be returned.

Examples

%first(jsmith,3)/first%

The above example will return: "jsm"

A common use case for this function is to manipulate Privilege Secure Login Account Template masks such as %samaccountname%, to change how what the Login Account Template evaluates to when an Privilege Secure user provisions an activity session.

For example:

%first(%samaccountname%,3)/first%

In the example above, if "%samaccountname%" normally evaluates to "jsmith" then the return value of the first() function will be "jsm"

substr()

The substr() function starts from the specified index in the supplied string and returns from that index to the end of the supplied string. If a negative number is supplied for int startIndexOrNumCharactersReturned then the return value is that many characters from the end of the supplied string.

Parameters

stringToManipulate (string)

The string or Privilege Secure Login Account Template mask to be manipulated.

startIndexOrNumCharactersReturned (int)

If non-negative, the return value is this index to the end of the supplied string. If negative, the return value is this many characters from the end of the supplied string.

Notes

If int startIndexOrNumCharactersReturned is an index greater than the largest index in the supplied string, then an empty string is returned.

Examples

%substr(jsmith,2)/substr%

The above example will return "mith"

%substr(jsmith,-2)/substr%

The above example will return "th"

A common use case for this function is to manipulate Privilege Secure Login Account Template masks such as "%samaccountname%" to change how what the Login Account Template evaluates to when an Privilege Secure user provisions an activity session.

For example:

%substr(%samaccountname%,2)/substr%

In the example above, if "%samaccountname%" normally evaluates to "jsmith" then the return value of the substr() function will be "mith"