Red Hat Summit1장. Vaults in IdM
Learn more about vaults in Identity Management (IdM).
1.1. Vaults and their benefits
You can use an Identity Management (IdM) vault to keep all your sensitive data stored securely but conveniently in one place.
A vault is a secure location in IdM for storing, retrieving, sharing, and recovering a secret. A secret is security-sensitive data, usually authentication credentials, that only a limited group of people or entities can access. For example, secrets include:
- Passwords
- PINs
- Private SSH keys
A vault is comparable to a password manager. Just like a password manager, a vault typically requires a user to generate and remember one primary password to unlock and access any information stored in the vault. However, a user can also decide to have a standard vault. A standard vault does not require the user to enter any password to access the secrets stored in the vault.
The purpose of vaults in IdM is to store authentication credentials that allow you to authenticate to external, non-IdM-related services.
IdM vaults are characterized by the following:
- Vaults are only accessible to the vault owner and those IdM users that the vault owner selects to be the vault members. In addition, the IdM administrator has access to all vaults.
- If a user does not have sufficient privileges to create a vault, an IdM administrator can create the vault and set the user as its owner.
- Users and services can access the secrets stored in a vault from any machine enrolled in the IdM domain.
- One vault can only contain one secret, for example, one file. However, the file itself can contain multiple secrets such as passwords, keytabs or certificates.
Vault is only available from the IdM command line (CLI), not from the IdM Web UI.
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