Continuum Analytics: Documentation

# Working with accounts

- Personal accounts
- Academic accounts
- Organization accounts

## Personal accounts

### Overview

This section explains how to create a free, personal account, log in and out, and access the settings and features of different types of accounts.

### Creating a free account

All Anaconda Cloud users can find, download and use packages without having a Cloud account.

However, you need to create a Cloud account to:

- Author packages.
- Upload packages, notebooks and environments.
- Access shared, private packages.
- Create organizations.

To sign up for a free Cloud account:

1. In a browser, go to Anaconda Cloud.

2. Make sure the Sign Up tab is active.

   NOTE: There is also a Sign In tab for existing users.

3. Select a username.

4. Enter your email address.

   NOTE: Users who register with an .edu email are granted some additional features.

5. Create a password.

   NOTE: The password must be at least 7 characters long.

6. Enter the password again to confirm it.

7. Read and accept the Terms and Conditions.

8. Click the Sign up button.

   The system creates your free account, logs you in and displays your personal dashboard.

TIP: Cloud displays your profile photo if the email address you used to register on Cloud is associated with a Gravatar account. To associate your email address or to change your Gravatar profile photo, go to gravatar.com.

When you are logged into Cloud, the Profile list appears at the top right of every page. This indicates the name of the currently active user or organization.

The icon to the left of Docs is the Tools list, which contains the following options:

- `Landscape`: Your home page.
- `View All`: All packages, notebooks and environments you have created.
- `Packages`: Only packages you have created.
- `Notebooks`: Only notebooks you have created.
- `Environments`: Only environments you have created.
- `Favorites`: Packages from other users you have starred.
- `Organizations`: Link to create a new organization.
- `Group Membership`: If you are part of an organization, the groups you can access.
- `Labels`: Labels you have created, for example test or development. For more information, see: glossary definition, using with packages and using in the development cycle.

Packages, notebooks and environments that you have created with this account appear on your dashboard. For more information, see packages.

### Resetting your password

The Sign In tab provides two links to help regain access to your account:

- `I forgot my username.` Click this link to have the username emailed to the email address of record.
- `I forgot my password.` Click this link to have a reset password link sent to the email address of record.

NOTE: The reset password link expires within 24 hours. If you no longer have access to the email account, you can create a new account or email support@continuum.io for assistance.

### Upgrading or downgrading your plan

To change a Cloud plan:

1. Log in to the Cloud account that you want to change.

2. At the top right of the Cloud interface, in the Profile list, select Settings.

3. Select the Billing option.

4. Click the Change Plan button.

5. Select the desired plan.

   If you are moving from a free to a charged plan, enter your credit card information, and then click the OK button.

NOTE: If you need more private packages or storage space than is included in a personal plan, contact Continuum Analytics so we can customize a plan for you.

NOTE: If you need assistance with billing questions, you can contact Continuum Analytics.

### Creating access tokens

The best way to manage access or make packages private is to create organizations or groups, which allow you to set separate permissions per package, notebook or environment.

You can also control access with the token system. You can use tokens to control access to private repositories, collections or packages on Cloud. Additionally, the degree of access a token grants is completely configurable at the time of generation. You can generate multiple tokens to control which groups of users have access to certain features if they have the appropriate token.

#### Generating tokens

You can generate tokens using the Web UI or Anaconda Client.

NOTE: By default, tokens expire after one year.

To generate a token using the Web UI:

1. Navigate to:

       https://anaconda.org/<channel>/settings/access

   NOTE: Replace `<channel>` with the actual channel name.

2. From here you can select a name for the token and set the required scopes.

To generate a token with Client:

1. Run:

       anaconda auth --create --name YOUR-TOKEN-NAME --scopes 'repos conda:download'

   NOTE: Replace `YOUR-TOKEN-NAME` with the token name you want.

2. This generates a random alphanumeric token string, which you can then distribute to fellow Cloud users to enable them to download a package that you have marked private. The token produced in this example provides access to download any of your private conda repositories.

3. It can be enabled with the `conda config` command:

       conda config --add channels https://conda.anaconda.org/t/<token>/<channel>

   NOTE: Replace `<token>` with your token string, and `<channel>` with the channel name used in Generating tokens.

NOTE: If you lose the random alphanumeric string, you need to revoke the token and create a new one.

Scopes are provided as a space-separated, quoted list. The available scopes are:

- `all`: Allow all operations.
- `api`: Allow all API operations.
- `api:modify-group`: Allow addition and modification of groups.
- `api:read`: Allow read access to the API site.
- `api:write`: Allow write access to the API site.
- `conda`: Allow all operations on Conda repositories.
- `conda:download`: Allow private downloads from Conda repositories.
- `pypi`: Allow all operations on PyPI repositories.
- `pypi:download`: Allow private downloads from PyPI repositories.
- `pypi:upload`: Allow uploads to PyPI repositories.
- `repos`: Allow access to all package repositories.

NOTE: Tokens provide access to all packages within a specified channel. Separate permissions per package, notebook or environment may be better handled with organizations and groups.

#### Revoking tokens

You can revoke tokens using the Web UI or Anaconda Client.

To revoke a token using the Web UI, navigate to the following URL:

    https://anaconda.org/<channel>/settings/access

NOTE: Replace `<channel>` with the actual channel name.

To revoke a token using Client, run:

    anaconda auth -r YOUR-TOKEN-NAME

NOTE: Replace `YOUR-TOKEN-NAME` with the token name you want to revoke.

## Academic accounts

Cloud is free for academic users. Users who subscribe to Cloud with an email address from an .edu domain are automatically granted access to add-ons, including IOPro, MKL and Anaconda Accelerate.

If you need assistance with an academic account, email us at support@continuum.io.

## Organization accounts

### Overview

Subscribers–in both free and paid accounts–can create Cloud organizations. Create an organization to:

- Share packages, environments or notebooks under an organization’s account rather than your personal account.
- Assign multiple account administrators.
- Assign different access permissions to groups of users and customize per-package access by group.
- Host more, larger packages. For details, see our pricing.

### Free versus paid organization features

Free plans do not offer private packages for organizations.

In a paid plan, organizations can:

- Host up to 100 private packages.
- Use up to 100 GB of storage.

For information about changing plans, see Upgrading or downgrading your plan.

For details about pricing, see our pricing.