Machine
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The machine account is intended to be used exclusively for automation and integrations. Since this account won’t be used by a human, and will not have a corresponding account in your source code management system, it is referred to as a machine user.
Create Accounts
You can manage machine accounts using the command line utility. Please see the command line tools documentation for installation instructions.
- Generate a token for your machine user. The machine account can use this token for API access.
$ openssl rand -hex 16
fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81 - Create a machine account with username prometheus:
$ drone user add prometheus \
--machine \
--token=fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81 - Create the machine account with administrative privileges:
$ drone user add prometheus \
--admin \
--machine \
--token=fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81
