User account
You may ask for a user account at CC-IN2P3 if:
you are administratively affiliated to an IN2P3 research structure,
you work in collaboration with IN2P3 or research entities using CC-IN2P3 services and resources,
your applications/infrastructures are hosted by CC-IN2P3.
Request an account
To create your CC-IN2P3 user account, please follow the procedure below:
read the Charters for the use of resources (the account creation or submission of a creation request implies acceptance of the charters),
go to the Identity Management Portal and select the [Sign up] button,
fill in the required information (using eduGAIN will make this task easier) and follow the instructions you’ll receive by e-mail.
The account login will be limited to 12 characters. It will be formed as follows:
<1st letter of First name> + <first 11 letters of Last name>
Once the account has been created, an access with the same identifier is provisioned on our Helpdesk.
Important
The creation of a user account for research structures personnel involving an administrative collaboration will be subject to validation by the relevant collaboration contact. The account will therefore be active only after validation.
Collaboration membership
Once created, a user account may request a mebership to one or more collaborations, and his activity will be managed under the responsibility of the relevant collaboration contacts.
Once the request has been submitted, no further changes to the profile will be possible until the collaboration contact has validated it.
Attention
A user may only become member of only one administrative collaboration. This membership cannot me requested, but is automatically assigned once the research structure is selected upon account creation or modification.
If the collaboration is allowed to use computing resources following its resource request, the account will have access to the interactive servers. To highlight this authorization, the account will be referred to as computing account.
A user’s main group, or default group, does not change when a new membership is added. To change it please use the CLI commands.
The membership has a limited in time. The collaboration contacts have the responibility to confirm its validity.
Account management
The User Portal gives you access to information concerning your resources usage, as well as an archive of the notifications concerning your activity at CC-IN2P3.
The Identity Management Portal allows you to check and manage information concerning your account profile at CC-IN2P3.
Note
If you have any problems connecting on the Identity Management Portal, please refer to this Troubleshooting page.
Administration
Personal certificates
Access to certain CNRS services requires a personal certificate. Please refer to the paragraphs below to obtain and manage your certificates.
Access by identity federation
The connection to the some of the services provided by the CC-IN2P3 and accessible through web interface is most often achieved by authentication via the identity federation eduGAIN or RENATER (which is part of eduGAIN). This type of connection allows automatic validation of the account on first access and implements a Single Sign On system, based on the user’s reference e-mail.
Some services require manual registration for users not recognized by identity federation. Many institutional domains are listed in the federation: please check the presence of your institutional guardianship on the respective WAIF pages below. Please contact, if necessary, user support.