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On the Security page, under Users, click Manage the farm administrators group. In the Farm Administrators page, click New. On the Share ‘Central Administrator’ dialog, under Add people to the Farm Administrators group, type a userid and then click Share.
SharePoint Service Accounts It’s the farm account that used to run SharePoint Timer service, IIS Application Pools for Central Administration, SharePoint Web Services System used for the topology service, Security Token Service Application Pool. It’s a content access account for the Search Web Service.
Navigate to SharePoint 2013 Central Administration interface, click Security in the left hand menu, and click ‘Configure Managed Accounts’. Select the farm administrators account in the account list shown, click the Edit icon and change the password.
How to make a local administrator in SharePoint?
The farm administrator account must be made a local administrator on the server hosting the user profile service during the password change. Once that step is complete, launch SharePoint Central Admin, navigate to System Settings and click ‘Manage Services on Server’. This page is used to start and stop services on each machine in the farm.
What kind of permissions do I need for SharePoint farm?
Some configuration options, for example, configuration of the SharePoint Server Search query server, require local administration permissions. The SharePoint Farm Administrator account requires the following permissions: It must have domain user account permissions.
The SharePoint Farm Administrator account requires the following permissions: It must have domain user account permissions. It must be a member of the local Administrators group on each server in the SharePoint farm. This account must have access to the SharePoint databases.