Rotation Overview
Quick start guide to Keeper Password Rotation
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Quick start guide to Keeper Password Rotation
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An active license is required in order to use the features available with KeeperPAM. This license is available for both business and enterprise customers.
Prior to setting up password rotation, make sure to have the following set up:
Learn about KeeperPAM in the Getting Started section
Enforcement policies for KeeperPAM password rotation are managed in the Keeper Admin Console under Admin > Roles > Enforcement Policies > Privileged Access Manager.
For Password Rotation capabilities, enable the necessary policies:
Can create applications and manage secrets
Allow users to create a Secrets Manager Application
Can create, deploy and manage Keeper Gateways
Allow users to deploy and manage a Keeper Gateway
Can configure rotation settings
Allow users to set up rotation on a PAM User record
Can configure rotation settings (legacy setting)
This should be set the same as ALLOW_PAM_ROTATION
Can rotate credentials
All users to perform a password rotation action
Rotation can also be enabled on the Keeper Commander CLI using the enterprise-role command:
If you haven't yet created a Keeper Gateway yet, a new Gateway deployment can be created by clicking on Create New > Gateway from the Preview Web Vault. We have also posted a page describing how to create a sandbox environment in just a few steps:
When you use the Gateway using the Create New > Gateway feature, Keeper will automatically create the Secrets Manager Application, Shared Folders and PAM Configuration. In the Secrets Manager section of the vault, you'll see the Application assigned to Shared Folders and also assigned to the Gateway.
A PAM user record holds a privileged account credential, password or private key. For steps on creating a PAM User, follow this page. The example below shows a PAM User record for an admin password on a Windows server. The PAM User record is added to a Shared Folder containing user accounts.
A PAM Resource represents a Machine, Database or Directory.
The rotation of credentials is restricted to the PAM User record type.
In previous versions of Keeper, rotation was permitted on PAM Machine, PAM Database and PAM Directory records. In the latest version of KeeperPAM, you will be prompted to separate the PAM Resources from the PAM User. See the Record Linking documentation for more info.
When you have activated Keeper Secrets Manager or KeeperPAM, the following new record types will be available to users:
PAM User Contains a login / password, private key, or both.
PAM Directory Information about your on-prem or cloud-based directory
PAM Database Self-hosted or managed cloud-based databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, etc
PAM Machine Windows, Linux, macOS machines on-prem or in the cloud
PAM Remote Browser Remote browser isolation to protect web-based applications
All 5 record types can be added in the Vault, placed in folders, and shared like any other Keeper records.
See PAM Resources
When rotation is activated, within the Secrets Manager screen of the vault you'll see a section called PAM Configurations. A PAM Configuration is an object which is contains the following:
Environment Local Network, AWS or Azure
Keeper Gateway Service which you install into your on-prem or cloud infrastructure
Application Folder Shared Folder which contains the Secrets Manager application and associated records
Administrative Credentials Keeper record which contains privileged credentials for performing rotation and discovery.
Customers may have any number of PAM Configurations, Applications and Gateways.
More information on: PAM Configuration, Applications and Gateways
The basic steps to rotation of passwords in any target environment are:
Add PAM User records to the Shared Folder
Add PAM Resource (Machine, Database, Directory) records to the Shared Folder
Configure rotation settings on each PAM User record
Create a Secrets Manager application
Assign the Secrets Manager application to the Shared Folder
Set the shared folder permissions from Read Only to Can Edit
Add a Keeper Gateway to the Secrets Manager application
Create a PAM Configuration which ties everything together
Assign rotation settings to the PAM User records
For automation of Rotation capabilities, Keeper Commander supports KeeperPAM rotation using the following commands:
Example:
Keeper Rotation can also update the "log on" credentials for Windows service accounts and scheduled tasks.
Keeper supports importing in bulk from JSON format. See the Importing PAM Records section for more details.