# Service accounts

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/service-accounts/723>\
**Category:** Features Requests\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/service-accounts/723 "2019-10-03T17:20:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![haraldschioberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@haraldschioberg](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/haraldschioberg)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/service-accounts/723/1 "2019-10-03T17:20:29Z")

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Can we have the ability to create service accounts that are tied to teams, but not to individual users. Mostly to

- generate API tokens for external automation, and
- to create schedules.

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**Author:** ![anon18197598](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@anon18197598](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/anon18197598)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/service-accounts/723/2 "2019-10-16T04:41:51Z")

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This is certainly something we’d like to do eventually.

There is a prototype internally for schedules, but API tokens are a bit more complicated.