title: What user credentials do I need to access Sharepoint Web Services
body: <p>I currently have a web config file in a web service that is using the following code snippet so that it can access resources on Sharepoint</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;identity impersonate="true" userName="[domain admin]" password="[password]"/&gt;
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  <p>Clearly this situation is not a good idea and we are currently replacing this with the correct way of doing things. However, in the mean time we are creating a new domain user that is NOT the domain admin and using that as a stop gap. The domain admin was used as people were too lazy to determine the right security levels required and a domain admin will be guaranteed access to every resource.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: What is the minimum level of security that this domain user requires in order to continue accessing the Sharepoint Web Service? What sort of things should I be thinking about? </p>