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Who TemprBac is for, and who it is not for
The fastest way to waste a week is to trial the wrong tool. This page is here so you can rule us out in two minutes if you should.
TemprBac grants time-bound membership of directory groups across Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, GitHub, AWS IAM and on-premises Active Directory. People request a named package of groups, it is approved if the package requires it, and the membership is removed automatically when the window — one to eight hours, set per package — closes.
It is probably for you if
- Your access already lives in groups. Cloud roles bound to groups, GitHub teams, Okta or Google groups that gate SaaS apps, AD groups on-premises. If that is how you grant access today, TemprBac can put an end time on it without changing how anything is authorized.
- The problem is standing admin on people's own accounts. Engineers who were made admin once, for a reason, and still are — in the cloud, the IdP, GitHub. That is access creep, and it is the problem this product exists for.
- Privileged work comes in tasks measured in hours. A deploy, an incident, a migration, a data fix. The window matches the task, and the next task gets its own.
- You span more than one platform. One package can cover an Entra group, a GitHub team and an AWS IAM group, and one expiry removes all three.
- You do not have an identity team. It is built for small and mid-sized engineering organizations: a published price, single sign-on included on every tier, and a migration that goes one group at a time.
It is not for you if
| You need | Why TemprBac is the wrong tool | Look at |
|---|---|---|
| A vault for shared passwords, with rotation | It stores no shared credentials | A credential vault |
| Recordings of what administrators typed | It records grants and removals, not sessions | An infrastructure access gateway |
| A fresh database credential or cloud permission created per request | It grants membership of groups that already exist; it does not create permissions | An ephemeral-permissions tool |
| Access review campaigns and joiner-mover-leaver automation | It makes reviews smaller; it does not run them | An identity governance platform |
| Laptop admin rights managed | It governs directory groups, not endpoints | Your device-management platform |
| A system that does not authorize by group, or has no API | There is nothing for it to grant or remove | That system's own controls |
Just-in-time access tools compared names products in several of those rows, and the CyberArk page covers the rest.
What it needs from you
- An administrative credential in each system you connect — for example a Microsoft Graph app registration for Entra ID, a GitHub App installation, an Okta API token or OAuth client, a Google service account with domain-wide delegation, or an AWS access key, with the rights to manage group membership in that system.
- For on-premises Active Directory, a small Windows service on any domain-joined machine. It connects outbound, so no inbound firewall change is needed.
- Groups worth packaging. The first hour of setup is usually naming the access people actually ask for. The migration guide starts there.
One rule that holds whatever you choose
No plan limit, quota or billing state can stop access from expiring. A tool that could be made to skip a removal would turn temporary grants into permanent ones without anyone noticing — so whatever you evaluate, ask its vendor what happens to a live grant when the license lapses. Our answer is: it expires on time.