Ory is the largest open source community in the world for cloud software application security. We maintain advanced open source security software solving authentication, authorization, access control, application network security, and delegation. Ory implements a variety of industry and best-practice standards including OAuth 2.0 / OAuth 2.1, OpenID Connect, Zero Trust Networking, Google Zanzibar Policy Framework, FIDO2 U2F, WebAuthn, TOTP, and more.

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Is there the concept of a service account, or machine user in the Ory ecosystem?

yes :slightly_smiling_face:

This can currently be achieved with using Ory Kratos and Ory Hydra with client credentials grant.

This will also be implemented "natively" in Ory Kratos soon

See also this discussion for reference. <https://github.com/ory/kratos/discussions/1922>

Hey <@U037DRAPQBB>
Check out this new discussion on service accounts workaround in Ory Kratos:
<https://github.com/ory/kratos/discussions/2452>