User Management

Users

Backend.AI’s user account has two types of authentication modes: session and keypair. The session mode just uses the normal username and password based on browser sessions (e.g., when using the Web UI), while the keypair mode uses a pair of access and secret keys for programmatic access.

Projects

There may be multiple projects created by administrators and users may belong to one or more projects. Administrators may configure project-level resource policies such as storage quota shared by all project vfolders and project-level artifacts.

When a user creates a new session, he/she must choose which project to use if he/she belongs to multiple projects to be in line with the resource policies.