cms-tier3@lists.psi.ch
with Subject "account request".
Use the following template without changing or missing any field names. In a case of umlauts or any diacritic signs in any names, please replace them with equivalent combination (e.g. “ü” → “ue”) :
User's first name: User's last name: Institute/group: Institution: group leader: CMS name: physics group: Grid cert subject: User's phone number: +41 ... PSI AFS account (if existing): login shell: /bin/bash primary email address: secondary email address: leaving date: DD/MM/YYYYComments:
lxplus
account name and it's also used in your CERN certificate's CN field. This is needed to build your user path on the CMS grid. It will become your T3 account name. If you are a student without a CERN account, we may have to generate a PSI compatible name.
/DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=OrganicUnits/OU=Users/CN=dfeich/CN=124567/CN=firstname secondname. You can get all details about it and your CMS membership from the CMS VOMS server (Link). This requires that your certificate is loaded in the browser. If you are on a short term project it may be that you did not get a certificate. You can still use the Tier-3 basic facilities. Command line to get the subject from a PEM format certificate file
openssl x509 -noout -subject -in .globus/usercert.pem
secondary email address
: used for backup communications and having a second factor communication channel (please provide a secondary address!)
physics group
: This is the user group to which you belong and that will be used both for accounting and fairshare usage of the PSI Tier-3 resources (look at the PhysicsGroupsOverview page for an overview about the groups). Pick the one that fits best - the groups are kind of obsolete after 2020. Typical groups are: ethz-bphys, ethz-ewk, ethz-higgs, ethz-susy, ethz-ecal, psi-bphys, psi-pixel, uniz-bphys, uniz-higgs, uniz-pixel