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chore: Service Account Naming Consistency (#11557)

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# Which Problems Are Solved

Inconsistent naming of service account, found in the following
variations:

  - Machine User
  - machine user
  - Service User
  - Machine Account
  - Technical Account
  - User: Type Machine

# How the Problems Are Solved

Attentive search and replace.

Localizations have been translated using Copilot

# Additional Changes

Some unused methods have been removed from the Go code.

# Additional Context

- Closes #11285
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ZITADEL supports authentication and authorization for different user types.
We can mainly differentiate between Users and Service Accounts.
We typically call human users simply "Users" and machine users "Service Users".
Users are accounts operated/used by a human, while service accounts are those operated/used by an application/third-party software.
### Users
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ ZITADEL handles the authentication and provides the application with a token tha
Read more on how to [login users with ZITADEL](/guides/integrate/login/login-users).
### Service users
### Service accounts
Service users are for machine-to-machine communication, and you would use those typically to access secure backend services.
For example in ZITADEL you would require an authenticated Service User to access the Management API.
Service accounts are for machine-to-machine communication, and you would use those typically to access secure backend services.
For example in ZITADEL you would require an authenticated Service Account to access the Management API.
The main difference between users and service accounts is the type of credentials that can be used for authentication: users typically logon via a login prompt, but service accounts require a non-interactive logon process.
Learn how to [use service accounts](/guides/integrate/service-accounts/authenticate-service-accounts) with ZITADEL.