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Everything that happens before you are signed in to the Dataerai Console: creating an account, confirming your email, signing in (with a password or your institutional Globus identity), and recovering a forgotten password.
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Overview

Use this tutorial before you are signed in. You can:
  • Create an email/password account.
  • Confirm your email address.
  • Sign in with email and password.
  • Sign in with Continue with Globus.
  • Reset a forgotten password.
Who it is for:
  • New users creating an account.
  • Returning users signing in.
  • Users who need password recovery.
Good to know:
  • Email verification is mandatory for password signups — the new account cannot sign in until the confirmation link is clicked. Globus sign-in skips this.
  • Globus accounts have no usable password, so the forgot-password and change-password flows do not apply to them.
  • The reset-password request screen always confirms the request whether or not the email exists, so the page does not reveal who has an account.
  • Managing your profile, avatar, and changing your password while signed in live in the authenticated account tutorials, not here.
Use a test account when practicing these flows. Sign-up and password-reset messages go to that account’s email inbox.

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Create an account (sign up + confirm your email)

Signing up registers a new email/password account. Dataerai requires you to confirm your email address before that account can sign in, which proves the address is reachable and yours. In the app
  1. On the Sign in page (/login), click the Sign up link (under Don’t have an account?) to open the create-account form at /signup.
  2. Fill Full name, Email, Password, and Confirm password, then click Create account. (If the two passwords differ, the form shows Passwords do not match.)
  3. You land on a Check your inbox screen. Open the verification email and click its link — it opens /auth/confirm-email/<key> and shows Email confirmed. Use Back to sign in to return to /login and sign in.
The Dataerai sign-up page Account creation is intentionally shown through the app. That keeps email verification and Globus sign-in in the same browser flow users normally see.

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Sign in (email/password or Globus SSO)

Dataerai supports two ways in: an email + password account, or Continue with Globus, which delegates to your institutional identity provider. In the app
  1. Go to your Dataerai instance — if you are not signed in, the app redirects you to the Sign in page (/login).
  2. Type your Email and Password, then click the Sign in button. (Forgot it? Use the Forgot password? link — see the recovery section below.)
  3. To use an institutional identity instead, click Continue with Globus. Globus sends you to your trusted identity provider, such as your university or Google, and returns you to the app after authorization.
The Dataerai sign-in page with email/password and Continue with Globus For programmatic access, use an OAuth access token as described in API authentication. The account sign-in flow is shown here as an app workflow.

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Recover a forgotten password (forgot / reset)

Locked out? The recovery flow has two steps: request a reset link by email, then reset the password using the single-use key from that link. This only applies to email/password accounts — Globus users recover access through Globus. In the app
  1. On the Sign in page, click Forgot password? to open /auth/forgot-password (heading: Forgot your password?).
  2. Enter your Email and click Send reset link, then you see Check your inbox. (For privacy this always succeeds, even if no account uses that address.)
  3. Open the email and click its link — it opens /auth/reset-password/<key> (Set new password). Enter and confirm a new password and submit; you can then sign in with it.
The password-reset request page The Set new password page reached from the emailed reset link Password recovery is intentionally shown through the app. For privacy, the request screen always confirms that instructions were sent if an account exists for that address.

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Sign out

Signing out clears your session. In the app
  1. Open the user account menu in the top-right.
  2. Choose Sign out. If uploads are in progress, an Uploads in progress dialog offers Stay signed in or Sign out anyway first. You are then returned to /login.
Sign out from the user account menu in the app.

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Next steps

  • Your profile — your name, avatar, public visibility, and email change (once you are signed in).
  • Passwords & appearance — change your password while signed in, switch the Auto/Light/Dark theme, and sign out.
  • Permissions, people & teams — the org/admin Settings modal (Buckets, Allocations, Organizations, Groups, Users) lives there, not in your personal account.
  • Getting started