Editing your data

If your details (e-mail, telephone, account password) need to be changed or completed:

Go to the Profile & affiliations tab in the Portal
Use the Basic Information or Extended Information tab
Update or complete the data
Confirm your changes with Save

Information

You are not permitted to edit (change) the following account parameters: Full name and Login.
In case you need to change your first or last name, please contact us by Helpdesk PLGrid.

To change your password:

Go to the Profile & affiliations tab in PLGrid Portal
Use the Profile management tab and Edit password
Define your new password and confirm changes

SSH Keys

In Profile & affiliations tab you can also define pair of SSH keys which enables you to log on to the computing clusters without passwords. This is more secure and convenient than the traditional password login.

Go to the SSH Keys tab and click Add new SSH key
Exemplary command to generate a new SSH key pair in the terminal is: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -a 100
Acceptable SSH key formats: Ed25519, RSA (min. 4096 length), and ECDSA.
On the local machine, go to the directory where the key pair was created (by default ~/.ssh) and copy the contents of the public key (.pub file)
Paste the content of the public key in the field marked "SSH key *" in the Portal, above giving it a name, then save the changes

Information

If you are Windows 10 user, this guide may be helpful for defining SSH key pair: Windows 10 OpenSSH Equivalent of ssh-copy-id.

Last update: April 24, 2024