Documentation for service accounts #1184
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| Service accounts authenticate using access tokens rather than passwords. For detailed information about creating, managing, and using access tokens, see: | ||
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| - [Creating an access token](/cli/how-tos/creating_an_access_token) |
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ugh, why do these docs live under cli 😆 is that the only access token documentation we have? (sigh)
| - Click **Create User** | ||
| - Enter a descriptive **Username** (e.g., `ci-automation`, `api-integration`) | ||
| - Check the **Service account** checkbox | ||
| - Click **Create service account** |
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Not a judgement but do our users need that level of detail? Or is our user creation flow that bad?
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I don't think our user creation flow is particularly bad, it's pretty straightforward. This has just kinda been the default mode of docs writing 🤷♂️ perhaps it's a bad practice, and just saying "you can create them here" is good enough
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Adds some documentation for service accounts, how to create them, manage them, add permissions, etc.
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