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h3.Description

Account service offers operations to manage a CollectionSpace account. To securely access the CollectionSpace services, an account for a user is required in the system. An account is associated with an identity. The identity could either reside in [collectionspace:CollectionSpace Identity Provider (CSIP)] which is the default identity provider or a foreign identity provider such as [CalNet|https://calnet.berkeley.edu/] or an [OpenID provider|http://openid.net/get-an-openid/].

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h3. Key Concepts



h4. Relationships

Following describes the relationship between an Account, a Person and a User in the [default identity provider|collectionspace:CollectionSpace Identity Provider (CSIP)]. 

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An account is associated with at least one Person in CollectionSpace. An account might have a user identity in the default identity provider. 

h4. Assumptions

h5. Assumptions for managing account with identity managed by [CollectionSpace Identity Provider|collectionspace:CollectionSpace Identity Provider (CSIP)] 
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h4. Issues

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* The Person Service is the System of Record (SOR), or authoritative data source, for personIds.
* The SOR for systemIds is TBD.
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h3. References
# [collectionspace:Authentication Service Description and Assumptions]
# [collectionspace:CollectionSpace Identity Provider (CSIP)]
# [Design notes for multi-tenancy in CollectionSpace]


h3. Questions