Perun User Management

This section describes basics of managing user accounts in Perun. It is of interest to Virtual Organisation (VO) managers. If you are just a user, this section will be of limited use for you.

VO is the basic unit to organise user access to (storage) resources. In a nutshell, VO consists of users and managers. Main responsibility of VO managers is to decide on rules for user’s membership. VOs can be further divided into groups.

You are strongly advised not to be just a single person holding the management role in the VO. At least two individuals are recommended to be in such a role at all times.

Data storage resources (to satisfy the needs of our funding organisations) generally require the users to demonstrate once a year that they are eligible to use our services. For that, membership prolongation has been established. Kindly note that if you have both roles, member as well as manager, you still need to apply for membership prolongation as the user and to approve your request as the manager.

You can learn about following topics here:

• how to invite your colleagues to your VO
• approving user applications
• dealing with extension applications
• managing VO managers
• creating service accounts
• creating groups