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 ====== Requesting an account ======
-To request an account, you can write an e-mail to <coka-admin@fe.infn.it> specifying as Subject: "Account Request" and in the body of the e-mail: your Name, Surname and Reason why you are requesting to access the COKA cluster.
+To request an account, please send an e-mail to <coka-admin@fe.infn.it> with Subject: "Account Request", using your institutional e-mail address, specifying in the mail body your //Name// and //Surname// (plus Name and Surname of your supervisor if applicable), attaching your //public ssh-key// and giving a brief description of the resources you expect to use/need (e.g. CPUs/GPUs, software, number of jobs, length of jobs, etc.) and what you need them for. Please see below how to generate a ssh-key for your system.
-To speed up the process you may already include in the e-mail your ssh public key, as an attachment.
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-In the COKA Cluster we do not use passwords, users authentication is managed by Public-key authentication. To know how the login process will be managed see: [[users:login|Cluster Login]] or in general to have more information on Public-key authentication: [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys]]
+In the COKA Cluster we do not use passwords, users authentication is managed by **Public-key authentication**. To know how the login process will be managed see: [[users:login|Cluster Login]] or in general to have more information on Public-key authentication: [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys]]
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-The e-mail you use to request the account will be added to a mailing-list which will be used only by the COKA Cluster administrators to inform users about the Cluster status (e.g. Shutdowns due to maintenance, hardware failures, newly installed software, ecc...)
+The e-mail you use to request the account will be added to a **mailing-list** which will be used only by the COKA Cluster administrators to inform users about the Cluster status (e.g. Shutdowns due to maintenance, hardware failures, newly installed software, ecc...)
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