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Feature Request - better credential management
#1
This is a big one for us....

We're a service provider managing connections for many customers.

We'd like vRD to be our credential store. For that to work
* We need to be able to reveal the passwords behind the asterisks - we don't want to have to manage another password store elsewhere and have the overhead of keeping them in sync
* We'd like to be able to specify different usernames and passwords for each server and selectively choose via permissions, who can see these. examples would be say ILO/DRAC credentials, network device 'enable' passwords, app passwords for management consoles which may be hosted on the server
* notes specific to credentials to appear for example, in a pop-out side bar so they're visible at a click once the server object is highlighted.
* be able to specify via permissions which users can see specific credential types for each server object

Just to be clear here, I'm suggesting a way of *displaying* credential information, not to actually authenticate down to that level - we'd still expect someone to have to type the 'enable' password on a router.

It would be pretty cool if the Administrator could specify the label names for such credential entities in the product so that it can be infinitely tailored to each environment
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#2
Since we have a lot of telnet devices and passing credentials doesn't work, it's pretty crucial that the authentication information is made visible to the user as they will have to type it in.

At the moment I would have to put the username and password in the description field of the connection so that the user can see it - it means that changing the password is a lot of work and every connection has to be updated
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