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By default you have to authenticate yourself every time you connect to one of the clusters of The Alliance. But you can configure the computer from which you want to connect to one of the clusters of The Alliance in a way so you will only have to authenticate your first connection but will not get asked to authenticate again for any following connections (from and to the same machine) for as long as your first connection exists and even up to 10 n minutes afterwards.
Linux (UQAM servers) and Mac
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| Volet |
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| Host narval Hostname narval.computecanada.ca User username ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm-%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 10m |
Replace 'username' with your username on Narval. The 'narval' above is just a name given to this "host". You can put here any name you like that does not already exist in your ~/.ssh/config. The '10m' means that you will be able to log in without authentication up to 10 minutes after you closed your last connection to Narval from the same machine.
Windows users
Check out the wiki of The Alliance: Multifactor authentication
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you probably already have as well as everything else you might have in the file.
With that one will get ask once every 19 years on each machine (narval1, narval2, ...) to authenticate when submitting a job with soumet.
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