Get User Credentials

You must have proper credentials to use client tools (such as Euca2ools) to interact with the Eucalyptus cloud. After you have signed up for an account and have received approval from the administrator, you can log in to the Eucalyptus Dashboard as the admin user and obtain these credentials.

To get user credentials

Log in to the Eucalyptus Dashboard using your username and password.
Click your username at the top of the screen and then click Download new credentials.
The download contains a zip-file with your public/private key pair, a bash script, and several other required files.
Unzip your credentials zip file to a directory of your choice. In the following example we download the credentials zip file to ~/.euca, then change access permissions, as shown:
```
mkdir ~/.euca
cd ~/.euca
unzip <filepath>/euca2-<user>-x509.zip
chmod 0700 ~/.euca 
chmod 0600 * 
```

You're now ready to use the command-line interface (CLI), called "Euca2ools."