As a privileged administrator, you can remove credentials from the credential vault.
Before you begin
Depending
on how your system administrator customized your system, you might
not have access to this task. To obtain access to this task or to
have someone complete it for you, contact your system administrator.
Ensure that you created
an access control item (ACI) for the protection category of Credential.
For more information about ACIs, see Access control item management.
About this task
This task removes credentials from the credential vault. The credentials are
also removed automatically from all shared access policies that reference
them. If all credentials referenced by a policy are deleted by this operation, the
entire policy is also deleted.
Procedure
To remove credentials from the credential vault, complete these
steps:
- From the navigation tree, click . The Select a Credential page is displayed.
- Click Search to locate the credentials that you want to
view. If you do not specify any additional information, the search includes all login IDs
and services in the credential vault. To
limit the scope of the search, complete these steps:
- In the Login ID field, specify a login ID associated with
the credentials. For example, type bsmith.
- Enter a specific resource name in
the Resource name field. For example, type AIX_Service. You can also specify a
wildcard, such as *AIX* to find all resources that contain that
term in the name.
- Optional: Click Advanced. The advanced search option opens a new page where you can specify additional
search criteria. For information about the Advanced search fields, see Fields for Advanced search for credentials.
The credentials that match the search criteria are displayed in the
Credentials table.If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
- Click the arrow to go to the next page.
- Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
- Select the check box next to one or more credentials
that
you want to remove.
- Click Delete.
- On the Confirm page,
click Delete. The Success page is displayed, indicating
that the delete operation was successful.
- On the Success page, click Close.