How to access, set up, and test your account

Basic setup

We offer the following user interfaces. Please not that we have a convention of which users should access what UIs.

UI Hostname user groups
t3ui02, t3ui03, t3ui04 shared among all users + guest users
t3ui05 UniZ
t3ui06 PSI
t3ui07 ETHZ

  1. Try to log in to the User Interface machine (-Y or -X flag for working with X applications)
    ssh -Y username@t3ui02.psi.ch
    
  2. If you are an external user and do not have a standard PSI account, you need to change your password the first time you log in. Please use the standard passwd utility.
  3. Copy your grid credentials to the standard places, i.e. to ~/.globus/userkey.pem and ~/.globus/usercert.pem and make sure that the permissions are set correctly like in this output:
    -rw-r--r--  1 feichtinger cms 2961 Mar 17  2008 usercert.pem
    -rw-------  1 feichtinger cms 1917 Mar 17  2008 userkey.pem
    
  4. NEW source a grid environment
    source /swshare/psit3/etc/profile.d/cms_ui_env.sh   # for bash
    source /swshare/psit3/etc/profile.d/cms_ui_env.csh   # for tcsh
    
  5. Try to create a proxy certificate for CMS
    voms-proxy-init -voms cms
    
    If this fails, run the command with an additional -debug flag, and the error message will usually be sufficient for us to point out the problem. Make sure that your certificate is signed up with CMS as in these instructions from our Tier-2 wiki.
  6. Test your access to the PSI Storage element with the test-dCacheProtocols command. You should see output like this (no failed tests):
    $> test-dCacheProtocols
    Test directory: /tmp/dcachetest-20081105-1632-8387
    TEST: GSIDCAP-write ......  [IGNORE]
    TEST: SRMv1-adv-del ......  [SKIPPED] (dependencies did not run:  GSIDCAP-write)
    TEST: GFTP-write ......  [OK]
    TEST: GFTP-ls ......  [OK]
    TEST: GFTP-read ......  [OK]
    TEST: DCAP-read ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv1-adv-del1 ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv1-write ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv1-get-meta ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv1-read ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv1-adv-del2 ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv2-write ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv2-ls ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv2-read ......  [OK]
    TEST: SRMv2-rm ......  [OK]
    
    Note: This tool can also be used to test remote element access (use the -h flag to get information on it)

Changing your login shell

Write a request to the t3 admin list.

-- DerekFeichtinger - 05 Nov 2008

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