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Check out the wiki of The Alliance:  Multifactor authentication

Automated workflows

This refers to connections to clusters of The Alliance for which you are not around to authenticate yourself. For example, automated nightly data transfers or job checks with crontabs.
Have a look at the official wiki page of The Alliance:

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First you need to contact The Alliance (support@tech.alliancecan.ca) and tell them what commands you want to execute (for example 'rsync' or 'squeue' etc.) and what tools or libraries you will be using to manage the automation. They should get back to you with more information - or questions.

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