Management activities

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.

https://portail.cc.in2p3.fr/

The Identity Management Portal allows you to check and manage information concerning your account profile at CC-IN2P3.

https://id.cc.in2p3.fr

Attention

After a profile update requiring validation by a collaboration contact (for example, a membership request or a date extension), no other changes will be possible until the contact answers.

Profile information

From the Identity Management Portal you will be able to perform the following actions:

• modify your First and Last Name, and your nationality,

• change or reset your password,

• request membership to scientific collaborations.

Important

To change your reference email address, please contact user support.

A notification will be sent periodically inviting you to revalidate your profile. If you do not reply, the account will be suspended pending deletion. Hence the importance of keeping this information up to date.

Collaboration membership

Once your user account is created, you may request a membership to one or more collaborations. Your activity will be managed under the responsibility of the relevant collaboration contacts.

You may select your main group, or default group, from your groups via the Identity Management Portal interface or by using the CLI commands.

Attention

The membership to a scientific collaboration is limited in time. The collaboration contacts have the responibility to confirm its validity every 5 years.

Expiration date extension

Periodically, you will receive a notification inviting you to confirm the information associated to your profile.

Important

Without any action on your behalf, the account will be deactivated and deemed eligible for destruction after the expiration date.

However, during a grace period of 3 months after the expiration date, you will still be able to trigger the unauthenticated revalidation process.

To extend your account activity, please follow the steps below:

1. click on the link provided on the red banner in your Identity Management Portal profile,

2. follow the procedure to verify your reference email address and click on the link you will receive by email,

3. verify that the information associated with your account (if necessary, update it) and confirm that you have read the Charters concerning the use of resources.

Note

If your account is member of an administrative collaboration, its extension will only become effective once your collaboration contact has validated it.

Changing laboratories or research structures

If, during your career, you change affiliation, you will need to update your profile information regarding your research structure (RS). There are two possible scenarios, depending solely on your new affiliation:

• Your new RS is associated with an administrative collaboration

  • The new collaboration contact must submit a request to user support.

• Your new RS is not associated with an administrative collaboration

  • You can submit the request to user support yourself.

Attention

A change of laboratory or research structure may involve a change to your reference email address. If this is the case, please be sure to include this information in your request.

CLI commands

You may find below some suggestions to check and manage your account information through a command-line interface (CLI) from an interactive server.

Modify your password

This command may be an alternative to the Identity Management Portal functionality for any user. It nevertheless represents the only way to change or update the password for a production account:

% kpasswd

Change shell

To change your shell when connected to the interactive servers:

% changesh -h

Usage: changesh --help  | -h
       changesh <shell>

 Where <shell> could be bash, csh, ksh, tcsh or zsh.

Unix group

To know your primary group, use the following command:

% id -gn

Without the option –gn, the command will list all the groups your account is associated with.

To change your primary group with a group you are already associated with:

% newgroup --help

Usage: newgroup   --help  | -h
       newgroup   --query | -q
       newgroup [ --temp  | -t ] [ --login | -l ] <groupname>

• --temp allows to temporarily change the group and only in the active session where the command is executed. At logout the group change is cancelled.

• --login allows to load the chosen group login environment. This modification is permanent up to the next change.

Attention

The newgroup command may fail if your Kerberos ticket has expired. Please refer to the corresponding paragraph for instructions on how to reset it.