First access to t2b

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There are a few steps to gain access to the T2:

  • First thing to know: our contact mail is grid_admin AT listserv.vub.ac.be . Please always send mails to this list and not to personnal emails, this way everyone here can respond and keep up-to-date with problems.



Getting access

  • Now, to get access to our T2, we need 3 things :
    • To know you: send us a mail with your promotor/boss in cc presenting yourself (name, university, Physics group/experiment). Please do so preferrably from your preferred contact email, as it is the one we will keep to contact you.
    • Add to this email the login you want to use. If you have a CERN account, it needs to be the same (even if said account is not enabled anymore).
    • Finally, copy-past the content of your PUBLIC ssh key, in order to have access to our User Interfaces (UIs, or often called the mX machines). To create a pair of ssh keys if you don't have one already, do the following:
in a shell type:
>  ssh-keygen
and follow the instructions. The defaults suggested are fine. Just choose a password.

this will create 2 files in the following directory: $HOME/.ssh
The files are:
  id_rsa
  id_rsa.pub

You need to send us the content of id_rsa.pub, which is your public key. The other is your private key and should never be shared.
Note that if you already have one somewhere else, copying both id_rsa[.pub] files on your computer is fine too.
 
  • [OPTIONAL] If you already have a certificate, please send us your DN. It is the content of "Identity" when issuing the command voms-proxy-info.



Next Steps


  • If you need a grid certificate, follow this twiki page


  • You need to register to the t2b user mailing-list
    1. Go to the request page
    2. search for the list beginning with belgian-t2-users
    3. then hit the button subscribe
    4. If any of this fails, ask someone to contact the mailinglist admins (or ask them to send a mail to this list with your request)