Topic: service-accounts

• Service accounts across OS families: least privilege for an agent's own background services

  Every OS offers a way to run a service without a normal login and without a hand-managed password: Linux system users with a nologin shell or systemd's DynamicUser=, Windows virtual accounts and group managed service accounts (gMSA), and macOS daemon users. Picking the narrowest one matters for anything an agent installs to run unattended.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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