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Feature: One Time Password Share

October 7, 2026March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary

At TechIDManager, we strongly recommend avoiding shared admin accounts whenever possible. However, we recognize that certain situations—such as granting access to outside vendors or providing temporary administrative access to a … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, How-To Guides, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: Passwords; Random or Passphrases

October 7, 2026March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary

Passwords come in various styles and formats. TechIDManager has always supported randomly generated passwords of any length. Recently, we introduced an additional option: users can now choose between a fully … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, How-To Guides, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: Force Password Rotation

October 7, 2026March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary
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In the unfortunate event of a breach, standard operating procedures dictate that the first step should be rotating admin passwords. By default, TechIDManager rotates admin passwords every 24 hours. However, … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, How-To Guides, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Send Keys not working on TechIDClient macOS

October 7, 2026March 4, 2025 by RuffianAdm1n

If TechIDClient.macOS stops being able to send keys (Send Both, Send User, Send Password) then these steps to update the privacy permissions are the first steps to try. 

TLDR (… Read more

Categories Documentation, Errors, How-To Guides

Passwords vs Passphrases: New Feature!

October 7, 2026February 12, 2025 by Emily Neary
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XKCD hit the nail on the head years ago with this comic about the difference between passwords and pass phrases.

One is random characters, another is words that you know … Read more

Categories How-To Guides, Short Videos Tags short videos

How to uninstall TechIDManager from Azure or EntraID.

October 7, 2026February 11, 2025 by RuffianAdm1n

There are two types of installs for TechIDManager in an Azure or EntraID tenant; Legacy or Linked. If you look at the agent options in the TechIDPortal there might … Read more

Categories Documentation, How-To Guides

Example API Usage – Tech Status

October 7, 2026December 21, 2024 by RuffianAdm1n

At Ruffian Software, Inc. we are developers and we love to see our product and community grow….alright enough with the niceties….to the code! This code is available under the MIT … Read more

Categories C# Examples, Documentation, How-To Guides

TechIDManager EntraID/Azure AD Agent Install (Base & Link)

October 7, 2026December 10, 2024 by RuffianAdm1n
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Categories Documentation, How-To Guides, Installation

Convert PAM to LAPS

October 7, 2026November 12, 2024 by Emily Neary

TechIDManager’s agents called TechIDAgent can be configured in many ways. If you haven’t read through the documentation on instances, you should start there first. When converting a PAM instance … Read more

Categories Documentation, How-To Guides, Installation Tags documentation, Install, install script, integration, Script

Instances In TechIDAgent

October 7, 2026November 11, 2024 by Emily Neary

TechIDManager has an agent that can be configured to do a myriad of things. The agent can make PAM accounts and LAPS accounts. Both of these accounts also have the … Read more

Categories Documentation, How-To Guides, Installation Tags documentation, Install, install script, integration, Script
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