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Delinea Server PAM
Your Linux and Unix servers each keep their own admin accounts. A leaver shouldn’t mean editing hundreds of hosts — Delinea Server PAM gives every Windows, Linux and Unix server one Active Directory identity, MFA when admins elevate and a recording kept on the host, as SaaS or on your own servers.
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The Delinea platform family
This page covers Delinea Server PAM — Privilege Control for Servers, Cloud Suite and Server Suite. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Least privilege for Windows, Linux and Unix servers: AD bridging, MFA at elevation, host recording
- Maker
- Delinea Inc., San Francisco; a TPG company since the 2021 Thycotic–Centrify merger; Art Gilliland is CEO
- Delivery
- Privilege Control for Servers (SaaS), Cloud Suite (SaaS) or Server Suite (on-premises): one family
- Price
- Not published for any delivery; quote-only, with a trial and a “Get Pricing” form on delinea.com
- Bundles
- Platform Standard counts 15 servers; Enterprise counts 30 servers and 30 workstations
- Directories
- Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Ping and Entra ID brokered; Group Policy translated to Linux and Unix
- Patching
- Cloud Suite needs 25.2 HF1 or later for CVE-2026-2409, scored 9.3 on Delinea’s advisory page
- Analysts
- For Delinea overall: Gartner PAM MQ Leader (2025), KuppingerCole Overall Leader (2026), Forrester PIM Wave Leader (Q3 2025)
- India
- No India office or hosting region; SaaS nearest in Singapore or the UAE, or run Server Suite in India
- In India via
- TechBag — delivery choice, server count, quote in INR with GST, a pilot on your own hosts
Understand server privilege management before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is server privilege management?
Admins sign in to servers as themselves, not as root, and raise privilege only under policy, with a record of what they did.
Local root on every box vs one directory identity — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Local root on every box | Delinea Server PAM |
|---|---|---|
| Who logs in to a server | A local or shared root account | The admin’s own Active Directory identity |
| Removing a leaver | Account by account, host by host | Once, in the directory |
| Raising privilege | A sudoers file edited on each box | Central policy, with MFA at elevation |
| How long rights last | Until someone remembers to remove them | Just in time, for the task |
| Audit evidence | Shell history, if nobody cleared it | Host-based recording per named user |
| What it is NOT | — | A password vault, or a published price |
The cheapest test is Delinea’s trial: join five Linux hosts to AD, require MFA at elevation, and replay one recorded session.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Host
Each Windows, Linux or Unix server runs Delinea’s host component, which checks logins and privilege requests against central policy and writes the audit trail locally.
Directory
Linux and Unix hosts join Active Directory, Group Policy is translated for them, and identities can be brokered from OpenLDAP, Ping or Entra ID as well as AD.
Delivery
The same server controls come as Privilege Control for Servers on the Delinea Platform, as standalone Cloud Suite SaaS, or as Server Suite installed on your own hardware.
Audit
MFA is asked at login and again at elevation, rights are granted just in time, and host-based recording keeps what each named admin did on the server itself.
Host software on every server, one directory identity behind it — run as Platform SaaS, Cloud Suite or Server Suite on-prem.
Nine capabilities. Consolidate, elevate, audit.
Delinea Server PAM puts admins on their own identity on every server, and checks them again when they elevate.
Linux and Unix join AD
Linux and Unix servers join Active Directory, so admins sign in with their own domain account instead of a local login on each host.
Domain settings on Linux
Group Policy translation carries settings managed in Active Directory over to Linux and Unix machines, from a console admins know.
More than one directory
Identities can be brokered from Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Ping or Entra ID, so an estate with several directories keeps them all.
A second factor at the door
Interactive logins to a protected server can demand MFA, so a leaked password on its own is not enough to open a shell on that host.
A second factor for root
Admins meet MFA again when they raise privilege, not only at sign-in, which guards the one command that can do real damage.
Rights for the task only
Just-in-time and just-enough privilege grant elevated rights for a job and take them back after, so shared root has less reason to exist.
Captured on the server
Host-based recording captures what admins do on Windows, Linux and Unix servers on the machine itself rather than at a gateway in front.
A named admin per action
Because people log in as themselves, host-based audit records tie each elevated action to one AD user, the first thing an auditor asks.
Continuous discovery
The Platform Standard bundle lists continuous discovery beside AD bridging and elevation, to find what still sits outside policy.
Watch Delinea Server PAM in action
The Server PAM demo, just-in-time elevation in Cloud Suite, Linux server protection, and zero standing privilege for traditional servers.
Server PAM Demo
Delinea’s walk-through of the Server PAM family: identity consolidation, elevation and auditing on servers.
Just-in-Time Privilege Elevation Cloud Suite Demo
Cloud Suite, the standalone SaaS delivery, granting elevated rights on a server only for the task in hand.
Linux Server Protection for the Enterprise
How Delinea approaches Linux hosts: one directory identity, least privilege and a record of root activity.
Supporting Zero Standing Privilege for Traditional Infrastructure
The newest of the four: removing always-on admin rights from the servers that still run the business.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Every server keeps its own admins. Server PAM puts them all on one directory identity.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
One identity on every server
Server PAM joins Linux and Unix hosts to Active Directory, translates Group Policy for them, and can broker OpenLDAP, Ping or Entra ID as well. Admins log in as themselves on Windows, Linux and Unix alike, so a leaver is disabled once in the directory instead of on hundreds of local accounts.
MFA at the moment of elevation
Most server MFA stops at the login prompt. Delinea asks for a second factor at login and again when an admin raises privilege, and grants rights just in time and just enough for the task. The step that changes production is the step that gets checked, and it lands in a host-based record.
Same controls, three places to run them
Privilege Control for Servers runs on the Delinea Platform, Cloud Suite is standalone SaaS for multi-directory estates, and Server Suite installs on your own servers. Delinea calls them delivery options of one family, so the choice is about hosting and residency, not about which features you lose.
Where it stops
It vaults nothing: shared passwords belong to Secret Server. It needs software on every server, prints no price or licence unit, and the Delinea Platform has no India region. CVE-2026-2409 (CVSS 9.3) forced Cloud Suite users onto 25.2 HF1, so check the version before anything else.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Delinea Server PAM rollout looks like
Count servers and local admins
List every Windows, Linux and Unix server, the local and shared root accounts on each, and which directory owns the admins.
Pick the delivery
Choose between the two SaaS deliveries and Server Suite on residency: SaaS lands in Singapore or the UAE, Server Suite in India.
Bridge a pilot group to AD
Join a handful of Linux and Unix hosts to Active Directory, translate the needed Group Policy, and log in with domain accounts.
Turn on MFA at elevation
Require a second factor for logins and for privilege elevation on the pilot hosts, grant rights just in time, and replay a session.
Retire local root accounts
Roll the host software out in waves, remove the old local admin accounts, and hand recordings and elevation logs to audit.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Four hundred Linux boxes each had their own local admins. After bridging to AD, a leaver is switched off in one place.”
“The second MFA prompt at elevation annoyed our DBAs for a week. The auditors liked it on the first day of fieldwork.”
“We kept Server Suite on-prem in our own data centre here, because the Platform offers no Indian region for SaaS.”
“Our older Unix hosts took longer than Linux to onboard. Test every Unix flavour you run before you sign the order.”
“Group Policy translation let the Windows team set login banners and rules for Linux without learning a new tool.”
“It controls servers well, but it is not a vault. We had to budget Secret Server separately for shared accounts.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the server privilege management market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Server Privilege Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Quote-only; Delinea is a 2025 Gartner PAM Leader.
Server Breadth × Identity Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how many kinds of server it controls vs how deeply it ties each login and elevation to a directory identity.
Windows, Linux and Unix; AD bridging, GPO translation, MFA at elevation.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Delinea Server PAM vs the server privilege field
Against BeyondTrust EPM, Okta Privileged Access, OpenText NetIQ PAM, One Identity Safeguard and Symantec PAM — on servers, directory, elevation, recording, price and India.
| Dimension | Delinea Server PAM | BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management | Okta Privileged Access | OpenText NetIQ Privileged Access Manager | One Identity Safeguard | Symantec PAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Server identity family | Least privilege, servers | Okta’s PAM add-on | Vault + command rules | Vault plus session proxy | Former CA PAM |
| Deployment | SaaS twice, or on-prem | SaaS or self-hosted | SaaS, agent on servers | Self-hosted or SaaS 25.4 | Physical or virtual box | Your own appliance |
| Servers covered | Windows, Linux, Unix | 100+ Unix/Linux flavours | Linux and Windows | Hosts plus AWS IAM | Hosts, network, DBs | Servers and vCenter |
| Directory and identity | AD bridging built in | AD Bridge sold apart | Okta directory identity | Identity Manager driver | Vault, not a bridge | Not documented |
| Elevation and MFA | MFA at login and sudo | Context-aware rules | JIT with approvals | Per-command policy | Approval before access | Super-user control |
| Session recording | Recorded on the host | Keystrokes, indexed | End-to-end recording | Keys, screens, video | Proxy, live kill | Replayable sessions |
| Credential vault | No vault; Secret Server | Password Safe is apart | Credential-free access | Vault included | Rotating vault | Built-in vault |
| Pricing model | Quote; unit unpublished | Per endpoint, quoted | Per user, resource units | Quoted, no metric | Per user or per asset | Partner quote |
| Published entry price | Not published | No list price | $17/user/mo bundle | None on opentext.com | Quote only | No figure found |
| Included vs add-on | In Platform Standard | Bridge and vault apart | Add-on below Essentials | Extra on Core Identity | Two modules | Optional VCF bundle |
| Analyst standing | Gartner Leader, 2025 | Gartner PAM Leader | None cited | No PAM placement | Gartner-recognised | Not in 2025 MQ |
| India hosting | No India region | Self-host to stay | Region not stated | Self-host in India | Appliance in India | On your servers |
| Lock-in and exit | Hosts tied to AD login | Pathfinder platform | Assumes Okta | Perpetual keeps running | Best with Identity Mgr | Broadcom stack |
| Best fit | AD-centred mixed fleets | Large Unix estates | Okta-first cloud teams | NetIQ and UNIX shops | PAM with governance | Broadcom and VCF estates |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Delinea Server PAM if…
- ✓Your Linux and Unix servers still use local accounts and you want every login tied to an Active Directory identity
- ✓Auditors want a second factor when an admin elevates, not only when they sign in, and a host record of what followed
- ✓You need the choice of SaaS or on-premises for the same controls, and India residency pushes you towards Server Suite
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You run dozens of Unix flavours and want command rules weighed on asset risk — BeyondTrust EPM for Unix and Linux
- ✓Okta is already your identity provider and server access is the last gap — Okta Privileged Access rides on it
- ✓You want the vault and the session proxy in one box on your own premises — One Identity Safeguard or Symantec PAM
Do not expect…
- ✓A credential vault for shared or service accounts; Secret Server is the separate Delinea purchase for that
- ✓A Delinea-hosted tenant inside India; the closest Platform geographies are Singapore and the UAE
- ✓A price list, or a published licence unit, for any of the three deliveries
Delinea Server PAM is one of 29 privileged access management products TechBag carries. The Privileged Access Management guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What do local admin accounts cost you?
Drag the sliders (servers in scope; admin-hour cost). Estimates model admin time spent on local accounts, sudoers edits, access requests and audit evidence at an assumed 1.5 hours per server a year, with 70% of it removed by directory logins and central elevation policy. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Not published: Delinea prints no price or licence unit for Privilege Control for Servers, Cloud Suite or Server Suite, and every Delinea Platform bundle is behind a “Get Pricing” form. Standard counts 15 servers with AD bridging and MFA at elevation; Enterprise counts 30 servers and 30 workstations. TechBag counts your servers and local admins first, then quotes in INR with GST.
Platform Standard
Best for a first wave of servers on SaaS
- Quote-only; 15 servers counted
- AD bridging, GPO translation, MFA at elevation
- Hosted outside India (Singapore or UAE nearest)
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Server Suite (on-premises)
Best when data must stay in India
- Quote-only; licence unit not published
- Runs on your own servers in India
- Same controls as the SaaS deliveries
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
How many Windows, Linux and Unix servers are in scope, and which Unix flavours and versions do you still run?
Which of the three deliveries? Get the chosen one named on the quote, not just “Server PAM”.
Will your regulator accept recordings held in a Singapore or Dubai tenant, or does it push you to Server Suite on Indian soil?
Which directories hold your admins: Active Directory only, or OpenLDAP, Ping or Entra ID too, for brokering?
Which factor will admins use at elevation on servers with no browser, and what happens when the MFA service is unreachable?
Is any Cloud Suite tenant or connector below 25.2 HF1? CVE-2026-2409 scored 9.3 on Delinea’s advisory page.
Do shared, service or network-device accounts also need vaulting? That is Secret Server, a separate line on the quote.
What unit is counted — servers, users or both — and is it a Platform bundle (15 or 30 servers) or a standalone SKU? Ask for INR.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Delinea Server PAM?
Model what local root accounts cost you first, or let a TechBag advisor scope a pilot that bridges a few Linux and Unix hosts to Active Directory.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.