Allowing the use of restricted server authentication

Use the Execute Inaccessible Server Auths permission to allow a user to execute a step on a server with a server authentication to which a user does not have access.

As a prerequisite, the user must already have or be granted access to the server. (To grant access to servers, click Servers > Access.)

You use server authentications to log in and access servers. Server authentications are associated with an access group (Servers > Server Auth > Access).

You might create the following server authentications for a server:

To permit a user who has access only to the qa/qa server authentication to run a step as the prod/prod server authentication, add the Execute Inaccessible Server Auths permission to the QA access group.

Note: If the user has access to the server but does not have access to server authentication through the Execute Inaccessible Server Auths permission, the step will still run but only if the environment variable _USE_BFCREDS is set to override server authentication.

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