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Newbie Question: Why would my users be creating API Keys? For what purpose?
Mary MacDonald
Crackerjack
in API
I have just noticed that a few of my users (including students, I'm at a University) have created API keys. I found them in the System>API Clients, when I was trying to create a new API key. I understand why I, as the system admin, needs to create these: to set up integrations with other systems. Why would a student do this? I am asking partly out of a concern for security, and partly out of curiosity. Are students doing cool things?
Please help me understand how an end-user might be using API keys. Thanks!
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Answers
Hi Mary,
If you are concerned about this please contact Panopto support since they can limit this action to Admins only.
I suspect you're configuration at the moment allows any user to create API Client.
If students are using clients to call API they are still limited on their user permissions, but if you want to prevent that you can.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
-Adis