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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.
Add-ons API Client (service) The default settings give access toAdd-ons Service with the rights, permissions and privileges permissions of the Service role.

This role allows some, but not all, of the operations that Administrator can perform.

Tridion Sites Content Manager API Client (admin) The default settings give access to Content Manager with the rights, permissions and privileges permissions of the Administrator role.

Custom service accounts

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