How To: Disable User Accounts with Events

How To: Disable User Accounts with Events


Question

Is there an automated way I can disable user accounts?


Reasoning

I am seeing user connections from users that are no longer authorized to connect to Titan SFTP server and I would like to have an automation to disable these accounts as they attempt to connect to Titan SFTP server.

Answer

You can leverage events in Titan and create an automation for when a certain user connects, to have Titan SFTP server automatically disable their account.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Events and click on the “+” icon on the top right.
  2. Select Events and click on “Add Events” button.

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  1. Expand User Events and select “User login attempt successful” and click on Okay button.

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  1. Select Actions and click on Add Action button.

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  1. Select the “Disable User Account” action and click Okay button.

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  1. Click on Next.
  2. Give the event a name, a description and make sure the “Enabled” check box is checked.
  3. Click on Next.
  4. Click on Create.




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