Silent Inspection

Silent Inspection

Silent inspection will allow an administrator to set a temporary password that will also work for that user’s account. This will work for one login or 1 hour (configurable) whichever comes first. This is designed to let an administrator login as a user without having to change a user’s password.

This feature is not on by default and needs to be specifically requested to be activated.

Who can use silent inspection

The use of silent inspection can be restricted based on roles that are given to an administrator. An unlimited number of different roles can be created in the Cloudwork dashboard in Admin Role. To create a new admin role which has the permission to use Silent inspection follow these instructions and check Can use Silent Inspection. After creating a new role, the appropriate administrators need to be assigned to the role which is done following these instructions. The only role that will always have access to silent inspection is the Super Admin role. This is due to it being a special role similar to root user in a Unix system.

Notification when a user uses Silent Inspection

When an administrator with the permission to use silent uses silent inspection, this will be logged in Reports>Adminstrators Report. In the Administrators Reports, the information logged will tell which administrator has used Silent Inspection and which user has been silently inspected.