> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.blindsight.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Your MSP

> Approving or declining a request to be managed, the switches that control what your MSP can do once it does, and how to end the link.

If a managed service provider manages your workspace, or has asked to,
**Settings → Your MSP** is where you answer that request and control
what it can do afterward. It needs `settings.security.manage`, and
nothing here is ever reachable by an operator working inside your
workspace from that MSP: only your own admins can change it.

## Answering a request

When an MSP asks to manage your workspace, the request appears here
(and as a pending action) with who asked, when, and any note they
attached. It tells you what its operators would be able to do, and
what always stays with you:

| Their operators can | Always stays with you |
| - | - |
| See protection, devices, AI services and alerts; change policies and settings while a session is open | People, roles, invitations, API keys, directory and sign-in policy |

Before deciding, choose whether to **let them see your people list**,
read-only. Leave it off and nobody from that account ever sees who
works at your organization, no matter what they hold.

**Approve** needs proof it is really you: the current code from your
own authenticator app, or, if you have not set one up, your account
password instead, unless your workspace's own sign-in policy ([Access
management](https://docs.blindsight.io/administration/access.md) → Directory) requires two-factor
authentication. Then the password is not accepted at all, and you set
up an authenticator in your profile first. A wrong password or code
counts toward the same lockout as signing in; a few failed attempts
lock the account for a short time. **Decline** ends the request; they
would need to send a new one to ask again.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Approval is refused if your workspace already has an MSP, whichever
> one. End that relationship first (see [Ending the
> link](#ending-the-link)).

## Once you have an MSP

Three settings control it. The code switch and the session length are
disabled while access is off:

* **Let `<MSP>` open this workspace.** On by default once approved.
  Turning it off ends every session an operator has open right now,
  immediately, and refuses new ones. Only your own admins can turn it
  back on (the MSP never holds the permission to do that from inside
  your workspace, even while it is open).
* **Ask for a two-factor code every time.** On by default. While on,
  every opening needs a fresh code from the operator's own
  authenticator app. Turn it off and they open after simply being
  signed in to their own account (weaker), and every use while it is
  off is recorded in your audit trail like any other change here.
* **How long one opening lasts.** 15 minutes, 30 minutes (the
  default), 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or 8 hours. A change applies to
  the next opening only; it never shortens or extends a session already
  under way.

## What they can and cannot do

The same operator limits described in [Team &
permissions](https://docs.blindsight.io/msp/team-and-permissions.md): the products and settings an
admin could reach, minus inviting, editing or removing people, roles,
API keys, directory, your security policy, anyone's password or
two-factor, and this very setting. Your own account (password,
two-factor, email, profile) cannot be changed by anyone signed in
through a client session, on either side.

## Where to see what they changed

Every time an operator opens your workspace, leaves it, or has a
session ended, and every change made inside it, is written to your
[audit trail](https://docs.blindsight.io/compliance/audit-trail.md), naming the account and the
person. A change is recorded before it runs. Refused attempts to open
are recorded on the MSP's side.

A refused attempt to approve the request itself is written to your own
audit trail too, whether the wrong proof was a password or a code: the
reason it was refused, never the password or code itself. The MSP's
own record of the approval never shows how you proved yourself.

## Turning access off

Turning the top switch off is immediate and does not require anything
from the MSP. It ends their access, not the underlying relationship
between your workspace and their account. To end the relationship, see
below.

## Ending the link

**End the link with `<MSP>`**, at the bottom of **Settings → Your MSP**,
ends the relationship for good. It needs `settings.security.manage`,
and the same proof as approving a request: the current code from your
own authenticator app, or your account password if you have not set one
up. If your workspace's own sign-in policy requires two-factor
authentication, the password is not accepted, and you set up an
authenticator in your profile first.

Ending the link has these effects:

* The MSP can no longer open this workspace, and anyone from it working
  here is signed out at once.
* Nothing is deleted. Your workspace keeps its people, devices,
  policies and audit trail, including the record of the MSP's work
  here.
* If you kept your own licence, it does not change. If the MSP provided
  your licence from its seat pool, the seats go back to the pool and
  Blindsight follows up with you about your licence.
* Any request from that MSP that is still pending is cancelled, and the
  settings on this page are cleared. If you link again later, you answer
  a new request and choose again.

The MSP's admins are emailed that the link has ended. The MSP
can also release a client itself: see [Releasing a
client](https://docs.blindsight.io/msp/clients.md#releasing-a-client), in which case your admins
are emailed. Either way, the end is recorded in the audit trail on both
sides.


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