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<title>Participant accounts</title>
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<h2>Participant accounts</h2>
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Each participant has a separate <b>account</b>
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with each project in which they participate.
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An account consists of:
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<ul>
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<li> An email address.
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<li> A public "screen name" (real name or nickname)
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<li> A web password (chosen by the user)
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<li> An authenticator (a 32-byte string assigned by the project)
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A participant's accounts are described in an <b>account file</b>
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on each of their hosts.
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This file looks like this:
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<accounts>
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<project>
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<home_project/>
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<domain>setiathome.berkeley.edu</domain>
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<scheduler_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/boinc-cgi/cgi</scheduler_url>
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<authenticator>3f7b90793a0175ad0bda68684e8bd136</authenticator>
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</project>
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<project>
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<domain>bio.wwu.edu</domain>
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<scheduler_url>http://bio.wwu.edu/boinc-cgi/cgi</scheduler_url>
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<authenticator>3f7b90793a0175ad0bda68684e8bd136</authenticator>
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</project>
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</accounts>
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</pre>
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<p>
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One account can be designated as the <b>home project</b>;
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this is the project where the user maintains their preferences.
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