Getting ATLAS Computing Accounts
Getting account at CERN
Please followed the detailed instructions for a new ATLAS member for ATLAS/CERN at:
Registration &
Access
which has instructions for both external computing account registration and
first arrival at CERN cases.
Note: Many E-mail addresses below contains
the insertion of NOSPAM in the address to avoid auto web page snifers to snatch
that address for spams. You need to remove the NOSPAM in actual usage.
Some possibly useful info on CERN account setup not obvious from
normal instructions:
- Access to CERN computers:
- UNIX (PLUS) login: ssh lxplus.cern.ch
- Windows (NICE) login: Web
Windows Terminal Server
"Remote Desktop Web connection" on top center of WTS Tools section. You need to
do a trivial one click registration first through the "Register here to
use the Service" link just below at first login.
- There are two distinct passwords. One is your EDH Authorization password,
which is used to sign documents electronically. The other is what you use
for other activities like Linux log-in, access to ATLAS protected pages,
CERN email, etc. Both passwords can be changed at
Change Password tab of
Account Management page.
- You can manage your CERN account -- default shell, home
directory space and so on -- from
Applications and Resource tab of
Account Management page.
- For E-mails to some of the main services and mailing lists like
atlas-support@cernNOSPAM.ch, you can only send them from your default
primary E-mail ID, as registered at the AIS when creating the computing
accounts. For example, if you registered your CERN computing account
with default E-mail at SLAC, they won't be accepted if you send them
from your CERN account directly, even you think that might have more
chance to succeed.
Getting the GRID Certificate
The first step is to obtain a personal
Digital Certificate (sometimes called a PKI or X509 certificate) from
the Open Sicence GRID (OSG) organization
which has a link for User ceertificate request. There is a more concisely listed
set of instructions on a BNL site
with also follow up steps to install/renoew/revokde certificate.You should select VO=ATLAS and Wei Yang as the
sponsor (for SLAC people).
Su Dong
Last modified: Aug 19 23:41:55 PDT 2013