Native Objects

Service Accounts

Account
Description

Local System Account

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Most powerful account in Windows systems. Used for a variety of OS-related tasks, such as starting Windows services or running scheduled tasks.

Local Service Account

NT AUTHORITY\LocalService. Less privileged version of the SYSTEM account and has similar privileges to a local user account. Granted limited functionality and can start some services.

Network Service Account

NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService. Similar to a standard domain user account. It has similar privileges to the Local Service Account on the local machine. It can establish authenticated sessions for certain network services.

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