readapi user in JSS Settings

[jriv]

I inherited a JSS recently and a few non-human users were already set up. One of them is named "readapi." According to the privileges section, this user has read-only access to JSS Objects and nothing else is enabled.

I was wondering if anyone knows if this user is a standard user set up by the JSS or a 3rd party utility. I need to cycle passwords and want to make sure I update the passwords everywhere this account is being used.

Thanks!

[bentoms]

@jriv put of the box the JSS only has an admin account.

So this would have been created by someone at some point.

[mm2270]

Sounds like a manually created user to me. To my knowledge the JSS will not auto set up any API use accounts for you. Someone needs to create those. That being said, its always possible a 3rd party utility created it as part of the setup. I don't use it, but I wonder if something like AutoPkgr creates a readapi account or if it just asks for existing credentials. I think its the latter, but again, I don't know for sure.

[jriv]

Thanks guys. I looked on both JDS servers we have and I don't see this account used anywhere. I've asked my director who set up our JSS on a linux VM and he does not recognize or see it as well. The only 3rd party util I know (so far) that we use is AutoPkgr andI've already identified the account associated for that.

I guess I will just have to bite the bullet and disable the the account until I see any what it affects.