Types of Accounts and there Uses
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Event access accounts will not be granted administrative privileges to any system and should not be used to authenticate services or applications to Active Directory or LDAP 389.
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Account Type Overview
| Type of Account | Used to gain Privileged Access | Password Storage | Password | Used to authenticate a service or application | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netid Account | No | User's discretion to keep the password private and secure | Personal | No | ||
| Administrative Account | Yes | Enterprise Password Management solution | Personal | No | ||
| Vendor Account | No | 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 |