Accounts

GitHub

Before starting, you should sign up for a GitHub account first. Click here to sign up; if you already have one, please ignore this step.
To gain access to the SNO+ organization, email snopluscode@snolab.ca and include your GitHub username, your full name and institution.
For specific instructions on GitHub and using git, please follow the new users guide here

Compute Canada

This account will be one of the most important accounts, since many other accounts require your CC account information.

You can click here to apply for an account if you do not have one. While applying for the account, you need a sponsor’s approval; please email Mark Chen (mchen@queensu.ca) as he is the current SNO+ sponsor.

Cedar

After receiving your Compute Canada account, you can gain access to our primary computing site called Cedar, following the steps below:

[Setup multifactor authentication] (https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Multifactor_authentication)
Login to Cedar in your personal account first by entering the command:
```
ssh <CC username>@cedar.computecanada.ca
```
If that is successful, run:
```
echo $ID
```
Copy the ID generated by the command above, send this ID, your CC username and your public SSH key (for more information, click here) to erming.pei@computecanada.ca to get access to our primary production and processing account called snoprod. Once you are granted access, you can follow the next steps to sign into it.
Go to ~/.ssh where you generated your ssh key by running cd ~/.ssh. To login, try:
```
ssh -i <private ssh key file name> snoprod@cedar.computecanada.ca
```

Liverpool

Getting access to liverpool is similar to Cedar:

Email fay@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk or jbland@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk with your public ssh key to request access for the snoplusprod account (see here for how to generate an ssh key). After the key is installed, run cd ~/.ssh to navigate to your SSH directory.

To log in, run:

ssh -i <private ssh key file name> snoplusprod@snoplusprod.ph.liv.ac.uk

Buffer1

Deborah Morris (deborah.morris@snolab.ca) or Mark Ward (mark.ward@snolab.ca)

note that the ssh version on buffer 1 is quite out of date so to get it to accept ypu certificate you may need to add ssh-rsa to the oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and oHostKeyAlgorithms

ssh -i <private ssh key file name>  -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa snotflow@buffer1.sp.snolab.ca

SNOLAB

To obtain a SNOLAB account, you need your supervisor to follow the instruction here. Remeber to join mailing lists after receiving your SNOLAB account (see here for detail).

Depreciated/Jamie Rajewski not working with SNO+

Illume (only necessary under specific circumstances)

To apply for an account on Illume, you can email the administrator, Jamie Rajewski at jrajewsk@ualberta.ca. After the account has been approved, you will receive your account and a temporary password, then you can log in to the cluster and change your password using:
```
ssh <username>@login.illume.systems
```
For specific instructions, see here.)