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Managing service accounts

For each service account, you can view its access settings and manage its client secrets.

About this task

Access Management provides the following preconfigured service accounts:
  • Access Management API
  • Add-ons API
  • Tridion Sites Content Manager API

For each service account, you can:

  • View the predefined access settings. The access settings for service accounts cannot be modified.
  • Manage their client ID and client secrets. An application can use the ID and secret of its service account to access another application's API. With Access Management, you can have up to two client secrets for every service account.

The following procedure gives an overview of how to manage the client secrets for a service account.

Procedure

  1. From the slide-out navigation, select Access Management.
  2. Go to the Service accounts tab, which shows a list of all available service accounts.
  3. Open the account you want to manage.
  4. You can do the following different things with client secrets:
    OptionDescription
    Add a new secret
    1. In the Client information section, select Add client secret. Access Management generates a new client secret.
    2. Use the copy button to copy the secret to your clipboard, and then paste and save the secret a secure location. You cannot copy a secret that has been previously generated and saved.
    3. If needed, modify the expiration date of the secret.

      The default and maximum expiration is one year. You can change it to be shorter than that, but no longer.

    4. Select Save.
    Modify the expiration of a secret
    1. Select Edit for the secret you want to delete.
    2. Edit the expiration date of the secret.

      The default and maximum expiration is one year. You can change it to be shorter than that, but no longer.

    3. Select Save.
    Delete an existing secret
    1. Select Edit for the secret you want to delete.
    2. Select Delete and then Delete again on the confirmation.