Account setup

Note: the following instructions apply to users that have already been approved to join the project. If this is not your case, see the documentation on participating.

Before creating the account

We need some information from you in order to be able to create an account:

• preferred username
• valid email address, which will be subscribed to the project’s discussion mailing list
• a SSH public key
• an encrypted password

To encrypt your password (PASSWORD in the example):

sudo apt install golang
go install git.autistici.org/ai3/go-common/cmd/pwtool@latest
~/go/bin/pwtool PASSWORD

After creating the account

You will receive:

• an authentication token (API key) for HTTP API services (e.g. Ollama)