Service (concept)

Service is one of several principal object types in midPoint. It is meant to define non-person identities, such as devices, "things", applications, APIs, servers and cloud services. Services are abstract roles, they have ability to grant privileges to other entities. Services are considered active entities (actors), therefore they can behave similarly to users. Services can be used as machine accounts. They have the ability log into midPoint, which is used to access midPoint REST API in a secure manner.