Overview

To use the PCs in the laboratory, you will use your alacrity Authentik account with its associated password.

Let's review first the account structure used at Alacrity:

• The first point of existence is your Google Account (example: alex.lucaci@alacrity.ro). You usually have a password set on this account that you use to login.
• You use the Google Account to login into the Authentik instance (auth.alacrity.ro), a directory tool used to distribute access to our internal applications and devices. You can also login in multiple ways into Authentik:
  • Standard Google Account login button
  • Authentik Password (You will need to set it once you are logged in; instrucitons explained below)
  • Github and Discord social logins. These are available once you connect them. More details on the Account page.
• The PCs in the laboratory will use your Authentik username and password at the login screen.

Set your Authentik password

To set your Authentik password, login on the Authentik instance, Click on the Settings menu, then click on Change Password blue button.

While the Authentik password is separate from the Google password, it is perfectly fine to set the same password on both places.

If you forget the password for Authentik, you can always login using social logins (Google, Discord, Github) and change it with the instructins above.

Laboratory PCs

Available configured PCs:

• Henri PC (Ark)

On the login screen, enter your Authentik username and password. Your username is tipically your google email address minus the @alacrity.ro section. Example:

• Username: alex.lucaci or iris.vavilov
• Password: **************

After you login, in your home directory you will find a couple of pre-created directories:

• Desktop, Documents and Projects are private to you, just like any other folders you create
• Downloads, Pictures and Videos are shared between all users on the machine.

NOTE
Windows PCs are currently single-user. Ask on groups for username & password.

Details for IT

On Linux there are three main ways to login as a user:

• Graphical interface - Fully functional
• ssh (alex.lucaci@machine) - Fully functional
• su - Partially functional: docker, serial devices and shared folders will not work in a su sessuion.

If you need to open a full shell as another user, use ssh username@localhost instead of su. The su queries user groups breaks our manual group assigmnemts for docker, uucp and shared groups.