Commit 68ffed78 authored by Mike Jang's avatar Mike Jang

Merge branch 'docs-improve-project-access-token-docs' into 'master'

Improve project access tokens docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!39129
parents 19240517 d0afd61f
......@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Every occupied seat, whether by person, job, or bot is counted in the subscripti
renewal of a subscription won't be counted as active users for the renewal subscription. They may
count as active users in the subscription period in which they were originally added.
- Members with Guest permissions on an Ultimate subscription.
- GitLab-created service accounts: `Ghost User` and `Support Bot`.
- GitLab-created service accounts: `Ghost User`, `Support Bot` and [`Project bot users`](../user/project/settings/project_access_tokens.md#project-bot-users).
##### Users statistics
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## Project bot users
For each project access token created, a bot user will also be created and added to the project with
["Maintainer" level permissions](../../permissions.md#project-members-permissions). API calls made with a
project access token will be associated to the corresponding bot user.
["Maintainer" level permissions](../../permissions.md#project-members-permissions).
For the bot:
- The name is set to the name of the token.
- The username is set to `project_{project_id}_bot`, such as `project_123_bot`.
API calls made with a project access token are associated with the corresponding bot user.
These users will appear in **Members** but can not be modified.
Furthermore, the bot user can not be added to any other project.
......@@ -48,6 +54,8 @@ When the project access token is [revoked](#revoking-a-project-access-token) the
records will be moved to a system-wide user with the username "Ghost User". For more information,
see [Associated Records](../../profile/account/delete_account.md#associated-records).
Project bot users are a [GitLab-created service account](../../../subscriptions/index.md#self-managed) and do not count as a licensed seat.
## Revoking a project access token
At any time, you can revoke any project access token by clicking the
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