Manage Credentials

This tool, or Credentials Manager provides a window to access and open any previously remembered (cached) connections from your Workbench, including both platform and station connections.

You can Reset or Remove selected Credentials or Remove All Credentials. You can also Open selected Credentials.

Figure 1. Manage Credentials window (credentials manager)

You can also remove or reset any cached credentials. Note that your credentials cache is populated whenever you have the login (Authentication) window option Remember these credentials (check box) enabled.

Figure 2. Authentication (Remember credentials)

The available caching of credentials is a convenience feature, such that you can simply open the platform or station later by entering only the IP address, or simply clicking on that host’s dimmed platform or station in the Nav tree, or going to the credentials manager. The login authentication window has the cached credentials already entered, and you simply click OK.

If you want tighter security for any platform or station connection from your Workbench PC, you should clear this check box whenever opening (logging on) a platform or station. Furthermore, you should remove any related entries using the credentials manager. This way, that platform or station connection always requires full entry of both user name and password.

Note: You can globally disable user credentials caching in Workbench via Tools > Options, in the General menu. When Allow User Credentials Caching is set to false, the Remember these credentials checkbox remains unavailable (dimmed) in any Authentication window.