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Add documentation for service accounts.

Review Request #15195 — Created July 24, 2026 and updated July 24, 2026, 12:46 p.m.

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This adds documentation for how to use service accounts and the
service account hook, with an example.

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Add documentation for service accounts. This adds documentation for how to use service accounts and the service account hook, with an example.	47b3b4589b16193c2df8414fd763cc59cd8c507f

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grammar: represent -> represents	david	July 24, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
Seems like this got reworded, and it now says "that you are to migrating over". How about "If you have …	david	July 24, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
This line looks slightly too long.	david	July 24, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
Just to demonstrate a good example, we should probably allow GET/HEAD/OPTIONS on the root as well.	david	July 24, 2026, 12:46 p.m.

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docs/manual/extending/extensions/hooks/index.rst (Diff revision 1)
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docs/manual/extending/extensions/hooks/service-account-hook.rst (Diff revision 1)

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Seems like this got reworded, and it now says "that you are to migrating over".

How about "If you have an existing user account that you want to migrate to a service account, this should be set to its username"?

docs/manual/extending/extensions/hooks/service-account-hook.rst (Diff revision 1)
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This line looks slightly too long.
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docs/manual/extending/extensions/hooks/service-account-hook.rst (Diff revision 1)
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Just to demonstrate a good example, we should probably allow GET/HEAD/OPTIONS on the root as well.
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