Support for Service Accounts
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Drew DiPalma
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Generating API key for service account to discriminate jobs from automation processes or from users
Mattia
Summary
A client would like to use a service account for generating an API access key. However with SSO enabled logging in with the service account is problematic -- i.e. can't bypass the login process to enter service account credentials.
A possibility would be to generate an API access token that is not tied to a specific individual and to easily determine when workflows are launched by an individual vs. automation processes.
Intended outcome
- The user would be able to easily determine when workflows are launched by a person or by an automation process without adding much overhead to their daily runtime
How will it work
- A workaround: create in th Tower organisation a fictional user representing the service account and configure Tower with both with SSO and email sign-in as you are suggesting in the above comment.
Customer research
[links to existing issues and pieces of info]- #179
Drew DiPalma
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