unleash.unleash/website/docs/reference/service-accounts.md

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Service Accounts

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Plan: Enterprise | Version: 4.21+

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Service accounts provide an identity for integration and automation tools to access the Unleash API. You can assign a role to a service account, granting it a specific set of permissions. Service accounts authenticate using tokens. They do not have a password and cannot access the Unleash Admin UI.

Create a service account

To create service accounts in the Unleash Admin UI:

1. Go to Admin settings > Service accounts.
2. Enter a name and username for the service account and select a root role.
3. Optionally, create and assign a service account token. You can also generate one later.
4. Click Save service account.

When a service account creates or modifies resources, Unleash uses the username of the account as the value for the Created by or Changed by properties of events.