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2929 Put another way: having client credentials is *necessary but not sufficient *
3030 for this kind of usage.
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33+ Disambiguation: "Clients" vs "Client Identities" vs "Service Accounts"
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36+ There are two different meanings for the word "client", from different domains.
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38+ Conventionally, a library's adapter for a web API is a "client".
39+ In the SDK, we primarily use the word "client" to refer to these API connectors,
40+ as in ``TransferClient ``, ``GroupsClient ``, etc.
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42+ OAuth2 calls an application registered with the service a "client".
43+ A "Client Identity" is a Globus Auth concept which uses this meaning of
44+ "client".
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46+ As a result of this ambiguity, this documentation will prefer to refer to
47+ "Client Identities" as "Service Accounts", which is the term which is used in
48+ other Globus documentation and the web interface.
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3251.. toctree ::
3352 :caption: Using Service Accounts with the SDK
3453 :maxdepth: 1
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