Linux Client - Overview

Introduction

Admin By Request’s Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) solution is designed to solve the security and productivity challenges relating to Local Administration rights usage within today’s security conscious and highly distributed enterprises.

Employees achieve optimum productivity by using secure methods to safely elevate everyday trusted tasks. IT departments achieve significant time and resource savings as employee requests for elevation are offloaded and routed through streamlined, fully audited and automated workflows.

This guide describes key IT administrator concepts and tasks related to installing, configuring, deploying, and managing linux endpoints.

In these pages

The content of this guide describes:

  • How to install the Admin By Request client on endpoints running Linux.

  • How to uninstall Admin By Request.

  • The user interface, including screen panels associated with menu selections.

  • Key portal administration tasks, specific to Linux.

  • Selected Settings tables, describing how to use each setting.

  • Terms and definitions.

These pages describe the Linux 4.1 client. Version 4.1 lets portal sub-settings apply on endpoints that have no directory service, and to local users, through pseudo groups declared in the local policy file; it adds a native tray icon, improved scaling of the user interface on HiDPI displays, and an IoT hub status row on the Connectivity panel. The policy file is covered under Policies for Linux in the portal administration topic, and the client changes under About Admin By Request in the user interface topic.

Audience

The Linux Endpoint Client pages are intended for IT system administrators who install and manage user workstations running the Linux operating system and desktop software.

NOTE

Although the guide is written from the point of view of an IT Administrator, the procedure steps and screenshots are described from an end user's perspective. This has two benefits:

  1. You can clearly see how something works from an end user's point of view.

  2. If required, you can create your own customized end user documentation by simply copying and pasting the procedures with minimal rework.

Product Release Notes

Release notes for all product versions are available on the Admin By Request documentation website:

Release Notes (Linux)