Generic User

[Mark.Lancaster]

This question has been asked numerous times on the forums and there's never a clear answer in what it really means.  I'm also starting to question the wording myself and I can see with this subscription change, more and more companies who are switching from network to single user are going to be asking this very same question..  Meaning if they are allowed to use generic login.

In this term of use https://www.autodesk.com/company/terms-of-use/en/subscription-types?_ga=2.183878753.69887588.1582048... , for single user, it states the following:

"If Your subscription for single-user Offering authorizes a “Generic Login,” then Your generic login and associated rights to the subscription Offering may only be used by one (1) individual Authorized User at a time and may not be shared and/or used by any other individual simultaneously."

So many have asked in the past is the offering to do so an exception I have to obtain from Autodesk or is it already allowed as long you abide by the rule it states? 

The term starts out with:

If Your subscription is described as “single-user,” “individual” or “named user,” then You may only assign such subscription to one (1) of Your Authorized Users. The Authorized User must (i) be identified by a unique user identification (“Autodesk ID”) and (ii) be an individual, not a group or associated with a generic login (except as permitted below). The Authorized User must log in using his or her Autodesk ID to install and/or access each Offering, and no one else may access and/or use such Offerings using the same Autodesk ID.

[JamesMaeding]

@rkmcswain 

Hmm, that would be really lousy. Part of the value they advertise is to be able to do exactly what I described.

Let's see if a 'desker can comment.

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous wrote:

Let's see if a 'desker can comment.

Unfortunately, I think that is the problem. I don't think anyone actually knows, and probably because there has been no decision made yet. 

I totally get what you are saying, that is one of the beauties of network licensing. 2.5 more years to go.

[JamesMaeding]

@rkmcswainsame here, on 3 year contract started 8 months or so ago.

I worry by the time of renewal, adesk will be frustrated by their plans gone wrong and then do something desperate like offer nothing for network seat trades.

Its just so odd because every threat they have made ends up being met by some deal that is about the same for companies that plan on staying in business. My company could care less about owning a seat. We either need it because we are in business, or not because we are out. This no network thing though is going to be the pinch of the vise. So right when we need very good info on how things are handled, autodesk is confused. Would never have guessed 🙂

[ihayesjr]

Hello,

For applications which can be used headless for automation purposes, as the Vault Job Processor, there must be a “Generic User”, AKA “System User”, fore each machine running the application regardless that there is no physical human using the machine or application. The "Generic User" account, used for headless automation, cannot be shared on other machines.

Hope this helps.