Security Compliance

How to exclude accounts from ARM recertification

This How-To describes how to exclude user accounts or groups from ARM recertification.

First published date

5/20/2020 9:41 AM

Last published date

8/5/2025 9:16 AM

Overview

It can be very useful not to display certain, e.g. technically necessary accounts to the data owners during recertification. This is possible for the recertification of file server permissions as well as for Active Directory group memberships.

Product section

Access Rights Manager

Resolution

To exclude accounts from recertification, you must make the following changes to the configuration file shown below:

Configuration file
pnServer.config.xml

Computer
ARM-Server

Path

%ProgramData%\protected-networks.com\8MAN\cfg

Code examples based on the resource being recertified

<fileSystem>
 <recertification>
  <suppressSidsByRexExpression type="System.String">-512$;</suppressSidsByRexExpression>
 </recertification>
</fileSystem>

<activeDirectory>
 <recertification>
  <suppressSids type="System.String">S-1-5-32-544;S-1-5-32-551;</suppressSids>
 </recertification>
</activeDirectory>

Possible values

List of SIDs separated by semicolons or a regular expression to exclude a group of SIDs. For example the regular Expression -512$; excludes domain admin accounts from the recertification.

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