Types of Accounts and there Uses
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The use of NetID accounts is limited to non-privileged user activities such as accessing email, file shares, web browsers, workstations, and non-privileged application access. These accounts will not be granted administrative privileges on hosts or used to authenticate services or applications to Active Directory or LDAP 389.
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Administrative Account
All users who have elevated access to a system or service will have one secondary account used solely for tasks that require greater administrative access. These accounts will be created and maintained in the OU Admin in Active Directory and can only be acted on by Domain Admins. In 389 these accounts are stored in the OU People and access is restricted to System Admins.
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| Type of Account | Used to gain Administrative Privileged Access | Password Storage | Password | Used to authenticate a service or application | ||
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| Netid Account | Only in specific casesNo | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | Personal | No | ||
| Privileged Administrative Account | Yes | Enterprise Password Management solution | Personal | No | ||
| Vendor Account | noNo | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | Personal | No | ||
| Privileged Vendor Account | Yes | Enterprise Password Management solution | Personal | No | ||
| Service Account | Yes | Enterprise Password Management solution | non-Personal | Yes | ||
| Departmental Account | No | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | non-Personal | No | ||
| Generic Account | No | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | Personal | No | ||
| Event Access Account | No | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | non-Personal | No |
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