https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Authenticate-as-Resource-User-Permissions/m-p/102503#M3363 Hi <A class="user-content-mention" data-sign="@" data-contactkey="cdb0632c-bb9a-40e6-b789-04d38ae1d08f" data-tag-text="@Emiliano Rossi" href="https://community.blueprism.com/network/profile?UserKey=cdb0632c-bb9a-40e6-b789-04d38ae1d08f" data-itemmentionkey="d1985bcc-cb7c-47c5-8449-b54351676e4c">@Emiliano Rossi</A>,<BR /><BR /><STRONG>Authenticate as Resource</STRONG> is a permission​ that allows a runtime resource to be started using the <STRONG>/user</STRONG> flag. This basically means that the runtime resource will be started as the particular user account that's specified. Normally, RR's are not started using the /user flag. Instead, they have a more secure token-based process where they negotiate authentication.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>Example:<BR /></STRONG><BR />"C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\Automate.exe" /public /resourcepc /user rrtest rrtest /port 8182<BR /><BR />If you tried using the above command to start a runtime resource, and the <STRONG>Authenticate as Resource</STRONG> permission was not present for the specified user account, you would see the following error:<BR /><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="37068.png"><img src="https://community.blueprism.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37079i3238BA52741FD250/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="37068.png" alt="37068.png" /></span><BR /><BR />Cheers,<BR />Eric Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:24:38 GMT ewilson 2022-02-25T13:24:38Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Authenticate-as-Resource-User-Permissions/m-p/102502#M3362 <P>Hello everyone,</P> <P>I would like to understand which is the meaning of the "Authenticate as Resource" setting in the User Permissions section and what entails enabling it.<BR />Could please someone explain it better than the BP documentation?<BR /><BR />Thanks,</P> <P>Emiliano</P> Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:19:33 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Authenticate-as-Resource-User-Permissions/m-p/102502#M3362 em.rossi 2022-02-25T08:19:33Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Authenticate-as-Resource-User-Permissions/m-p/102503#M3363 Hi <A class="user-content-mention" data-sign="@" data-contactkey="cdb0632c-bb9a-40e6-b789-04d38ae1d08f" data-tag-text="@Emiliano Rossi" href="https://community.blueprism.com/network/profile?UserKey=cdb0632c-bb9a-40e6-b789-04d38ae1d08f" data-itemmentionkey="d1985bcc-cb7c-47c5-8449-b54351676e4c">@Emiliano Rossi</A>,<BR /><BR /><STRONG>Authenticate as Resource</STRONG> is a permission​ that allows a runtime resource to be started using the <STRONG>/user</STRONG> flag. This basically means that the runtime resource will be started as the particular user account that's specified. Normally, RR's are not started using the /user flag. Instead, they have a more secure token-based process where they negotiate authentication.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>Example:<BR /></STRONG><BR />"C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\Automate.exe" /public /resourcepc /user rrtest rrtest /port 8182<BR /><BR />If you tried using the above command to start a runtime resource, and the <STRONG>Authenticate as Resource</STRONG> permission was not present for the specified user account, you would see the following error:<BR /><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="37068.png"><img src="https://community.blueprism.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37079i3238BA52741FD250/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="37068.png" alt="37068.png" /></span><BR /><BR />Cheers,<BR />Eric Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:24:38 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Authenticate-as-Resource-User-Permissions/m-p/102503#M3363 ewilson 2022-02-25T13:24:38Z