Setup
This page contains an overview on how to set up the infrastructure and various services for you.
Request Access
The initial account creation is (currently) a manual process. Usually you’ll have received initial access credentials. Otherwise, you can request these through the Echtzeit Board.
The first thing you should do is to change the initial password. This process is described below at Account Management. Through lldap you can also upload a profile picture (avatar) which will show up in various other services.
Account Management
Visit https://lldap.ezdk.org and log in with your credentials to change anything related to your account.
Caution
Yes: You have one username/password combination which is used to authenticate you on all service. No, there is no Single-Sign-On (yet) and also no 2FA (yet). Please don’t use a password you rely on for other services, and choose a reasonably complex one.
Change password
To change your (known) password to a new one, click the Modify password button.
Note
If you have forgotten your password, there is currently no way to reset it yourself (no “send reset link” or similar). Contact an administrator to help you out.
Avatar
You can upload an image to use as your avatar. This will show up in XMPP Clients which support it. To change it, simply upload a new file.
Display name
Your display name is different from your User ID. The User ID is basically your “username” and will be used to authenticate you and create idendities for various services. Your Display name on the other hand is (usually) you “Nickname”. The name that is shown to identify you to others. You can change you Display name, but not your User ID. But it is still recommended that you keep both of them identical. It makes many things simpler.
First & Last name
You can put whatever you like in there, or keep it empty - we don’t care. Be aware that other services like xmpp will read these values.
The field for your email address. This should be pre-filled with <your-username>@ezdk.org. This allows your account to have an email account on the server. You could add your personal email address in there, you won’t really gain something from it and lose the ability to use the internal mailserver.
Group memberships
The groups you are part of are shown here. You cannot change them on your own. These groups define to which services you have access to.
Services
With an account on *ezdk.org you automatically get access to Nextcloud, an *@ezdk.org email address and can log in to our xmpp based chat infrastructure.
All of them will use you username/nickname and the password you’ve set to authenticate you. As a first step, please log in to nextcloud and make yourself familiar with the documentation of our instance. There you’ll also find information on how to set up your e-mail account in the nextcloud email app.
After that, please see if you can log in to your xmpp account through the web-interface at https://chat.ezdk.org and check out our documentation