The machine account is intended to be used exclusively for automation and integrations. Since this account won’t be used by a human, and will not have a corresponding account in your source code management system, it is referred to as a machine user.

Create Accounts

You can manage machine accounts using the command line utility. Please see the command line tools documentation for installation instructions.

Generate a token for your machine user. The machine account can use this token for API access.
```
$ openssl rand -hex 16
  fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81
```

Create a machine account with username prometheus:

$ drone user add prometheus \
  --machine \
  --token=fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81

Create the machine account with administrative privileges:

$ drone user add prometheus \
  --admin \
  --machine \
  --token=fe8c402a51e6629aa1f43a4234afee81