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Who or what is System user?

BobBubble2000
New Contributor II

I noticed in the Catalog Explorer of an Unity Catalog integrated workspace that there is a default catalog named 'system' owned by 'System user'. Who is this system user? It is not listed in the admin dashboard of all workspace users. 

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MathieuDB
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hello @BobBubble2000 , The "System user" is a special user created by Databricks to manage these system tables and is not listed in the admin dashboard of workspace users. This user is not a typical user but rather a service account used internally by Databricks to handle system-level operations and data management within the Unity Catalog.

Hope this helps!

Walter_C
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Is a special user account created by Databricks for managing system-level operations and configurations. This user is not listed in the admin dashboard of all workspace users because it is not a regular user account but rather a system account used internally by Databricks to manage and maintain the Unity Catalog infrastructure.

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