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This guide provides the following sections to help you get up and running with P0's Just-in-time access:

This process takes about 15 minutes.

This document uses the following terms:

  • Requestor: Person who requests access to a resource via P0's Slack bot.

  • Approver: Person who approves these access requests via P0's Slack bot.

Set up an Account and an Access Approver

To create your P0 account and set up an approver to approve access requests:

  1. Create a free P0 account at https://p0.app/create-account. All you need is an email address.

  2. Set up a cloud integration through the onboarding flow (optional)

  3. Once you've completed the onboarding, under Settings, add one or more access-request approvers.

If you want approvers to be able to approve their own requests, enable Allow one-party approvals?.

Install P0 and an IAM Resource

To install P0 and an IAM resource:

  1. To install P0 on your Slack instance, follow the Slack set-up instructions.

  2. To set up P0 on an IAM resource, follow one of the guides below:

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  • You can use the P0 Security Command-line Interface (CLI) as an alternate method to request permissions, and then approve using the P0 website app.

  • P0 is in the process of adding additional IAM request methods, including a Microsoft Teams bot.

Make your First Access Request

Once you've set up P0, you can make your first access request. You can try this out entirely on your own, if you enabled one-party approvals in Set up an Account and an Access Approver above. Otherwise, grab a colleague to help you, and designate one person as the requestor and the other as the approver:

  1. Navigate to any page under Just-in-time https://p0.app/o/<your organization>/jit/activity and click the Request Access button in the top right

  1. Populate the request details. For example:

  1. The approver will be able to see the request under the Just-in-time Activity page under the Pending section

    After a few moments, the access requestor will receive a notification in the p0-requests channel that access was granted.

  1. Once the access propagates to the resource, the request will progress to the Active section.

Access automatically ends after the expiration period is over, or when the requestor clicks the Relinquish button in their P0 DM.

What's Next

If you run into any issues, please reach out to [email protected] for assistance. We're here to help!

Now that you can make access requests, you can:

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