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Managing service accounts in Access Management

Service accounts enable applications and other non-human users to authenticate through Access Management and be authorized to access APIs.

Default service accounts

Access Management provides the following preconfigured service accounts:
Service accountDefault access settings
Access Management API Client (admin)The default settings give access to the Access Management API with the rights, permissions and privileges of the Administrator role.
Tridion Docs Content Manager API Client (admin) The default settings give access to the Content ManagerAPI.
API Client (ServiceUser) The default settings give the Translation Organizer access to the Content Manager API.
Metrics API Client (ServiceUser)The default settings give the background task access to the Metrics API.

Custom service accounts

Access Management enables you to create new custom service accounts to use in addition to the default ones for Tridion Docs.