Service accounts and human accounts are managed by the same commands and recorded in the same files. Account creation commands may have options to set reasonable defaults for human vs service users, e.g. to pick a user ID in the proper range, and to prompt for a password for a human and disable password authentication for a service.
I would like to generate an ssh key pair for a service account on one machine to access another machine via ssh. When I generate the key with my user, my username is embedded in the public key. E.g.
Probably the best way to solve this would be to create a ClusterRole that provides GET and LIST rights to Namespace resources and then create a ClusterRoleBinding for each of the service accounts to that ClusterRole.
Windows -> Open services.msc -> Find the service -> Goto Properties -> set the user credentials on the security tab to either the gMSA or the account/password, as appropriate.
My system admin created a tomcat user service account under which to run tomcat. I'm generally following instructions on this page but when I get to the step where I adjust the startup script to run the tomcat startup and shutdown commands as user tomcat (Step 6, item 4) I'm being asked for a password for the tomcat account.
This is different from creating a user that anyone can log in as without supplying a password, which is achieved by specifying an empty password and is very rarely useful. In order to execute commands as such “system” users who don't log in normally, you need to hop via the root account: su -c 'su git -c "git init"' or sudo -u git git init
I have root access to my local server. Some days ago, my colleague created a user on that server, giving me the username and password, but the user has minimized permissions. For instance, the user...
The main difference is the purpose of the account, so it's primarily a useful distinction for administrators and auditors. There are a few technical differences — from the adduser documentation:
Following the install instruction, I created a service account user with a specified home directory at /srv/nominatim. I know service account normally don't have home dir, but this one specifies a -m options.
0 Currently we are having Git repository which is configured with srvapps (service account).I can sudo to the Git server using this account (username - srvapps and password - my login password). My application is running on the username "srvapps" and all the directories is owned by the srvapps:srvapps (username/group)
