Permissions Reporter

A Permissions Reporter project allows you to provide authentication credentials for permissions reports. There are two authentication mechanisms available.

 

Windows Account Impersonation

 

When Windows impersonation is enabled, Permissions Reporter will use the provided user account credentials to log into Windows and then execute the file system analysis while impersonating that user.

 

This option is useful in cases where you need to log into a remote Windows machine with a specific user account in order to gain access to its file system, etc.

 

When analyzing domain members, we recommend impersonating a domain admin. Otherwise, we recommend impersonating a local admin.

 

You can also use the "Impersonate only for outbound connections" option, if needed. This will cause the provided credentials to be used only when authenticating for remote connections, otherwise the identity of the currently logged-in user will be used.

 

Network Authentication

 

You can use network level authentication to access non-Windows network devices. For example, if an external NAS device requires a username and password, use this option to authenticate to it.

 

This setting applies to network paths only, and will be ignored when accessing local volumes.