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  • Get started on the Rubin Science Platform
    • Getting an account on the RSP
    • Linking additional identities
  • Hybrid model
  • Patch Thursday
  • Staying up to date
  • Quotas and limits
  • Authentication
    • Creating user tokens
    • Token scopes
    • Tutorial: Authenticating from TOPCAT outside the Science Platform
    • User-managed groups
  • Recover from access issues
  • Portal
    • Start and stop a session
    • Using the Portal
      • Portal tutorials
  • Notebooks
    • Start and stop a server
    • Using Jupyter Notebooks
      • Tutorial Notebooks
    • Using the JupyterLab terminal
    • Using the Science Pipelines
      • Using the LSST Science Pipelines in the terminal
      • Using the LSST Science Pipelines in notebooks (LSST kernel)
      • Developing LSST Science Pipelines packages in the Notebook Aspect
    • Configuring the Notebook Aspect
      • Configuring Git and GitHub access
      • Configuring your shell
      • Configure the shell environment for notebook kernels
      • Install packages in user environment
      • Customizing user interface appearance
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • lsst.rsp — Python utilities
      • get_access_token
      • get_catalog
      • get_datalink_result
      • get_digest
      • get_hostname
      • get_influxdb_credentials
      • get_influxdb_location
      • get_node
      • get_obstap_service
      • get_pod
      • get_query_history
      • get_service_url
      • get_siav2_service
      • get_tap_service
      • list_datasets
      • list_influxdb_labels
      • retrieve_query
      • DiscoveryNotAvailableError
      • InfluxDBCredentials
      • InfluxDBLocation
      • InvalidDiscoveryError
      • RSPClient
      • RSPDiscovery
      • TokenNotAvailableError
      • UnknownDatasetError
      • UnknownInfluxDBError
      • UnknownServiceError
  • API
  • WebDAV
  • Times Square
    • Authoring notebooks
      • Making a notebook compatible with Times Square
      • How to write a notebook for Times Square
      • Setting dynamic defaults for date and dayobs parameters
      • Scheduling automatic notebook runs
      • Parameter types
      • Sidecar metadata YAML file reference
    • Managing GitHub repositories
      • How to set up and install a GitHub repository into Times Square
      • Setting up pre-commit hooks to format notebooks
      • How to add GitHub branch protections to a Times Square repository
      • times-square.yaml schema reference
  • Rubin Science Platform Guides
  • Authentication

Authentication#

Learn about signing into the Rubin Science Platform at the Rubin IDF (Dev) and using security tokens to access VO services.

Tokens

  • Creating user tokens
  • Token scopes
  • Tutorial: Authenticating from TOPCAT outside the Science Platform

File sharing

  • User-managed groups

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