What is the purpose of Web Service Access only in user registration form

[Uday32]

What is the purpose of Web Service Access only in user registration form

[Boyan1]

Hello, 

The purpose of this is described in below document.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-platform-administration/page/administer/users-and-groups/...

In short, user that has this property set to true cannot login via ServiceNow UI. Such users are mainly used for integrations.

Best regards,

Boyan

[siva_]

Web Service Access Only check box is checked for the users accounts who need to be the service accounts 

There are two types of accounts 

1)User Accounts 

2)Service Accounts

 User Accounts can be used to login with user name and password via Servicenow UI

Where as service accounts are used in giving user name and passwords on integrations in PostaMan tool while testing or accessing endpoints of integrations , they cannot be logged in via Service now UI 

These are generally set up while setting integrations , where you need to create a user account in servicenow which cannot be used to directly login to the system (Access provided only via webservices)

Hope this helps 

Mark this response as correct if that really helps

Thanks,

Siva 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Uday,

there are few types of users who will be used for API authentication purpose; the credentials are shared with 3rd party team.

These users can login to the instance from UI.

In order to block those type of users this checkbox when set to true ensures that this user cannot login to the UI and will be used only for API purpose.

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Thanks
Ankur

[ARG645]

One liner : web service access only checkbox only grants a NON interactive Session for the user.