Frequently Asked Questions

Write an E-Mail to the our Team with the following information:

• On which system the problem occured?
• What you have done?
• What was expected?
• What happened instead?

Please provide commands and output in text form.

You may change your password on every Unix machine in the lab with the passwd command or here any time.

Your password must meet the following requirements:

• Passwords must not contain your user’s entire Account Name or entire Full Name. Both checks are not case sensitive.
• Passwords must have a minimum length of eight (8) characters.
• Passwords must contain characters from three (3) of the following five categories:
  • Uppercase characters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
  • Lowercase characters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
  • Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
  • Nonalphanumeric characters: ~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;“'<>,.?/
  • Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.

If you have granted sudo rights to a VM, you can install the software of your choice. Otherwise, you have to prepare a docker container including your needed software.

In general no. If you have special requirements, please contact us.

You have to connect to the VPN first, and then ssh to the assigned resource.

Up to 20 GB can be stored permanently in your home directory. Short term (< 2 months) space up to 100 GiB. If you need more, please contact us.

For other project members you can request additional user accounts. Please do so via the FSOC Portal.

Please contact us.

CET - Central European Time (Berlin local time).