Managing Your Account
Use fission setup andfission user whoami to set up your account and display your username.
The fission setup command registers your account with Fission or links to your existing Fission account.
$ fission setup🌱 Setting up environment🪐 Downloading managed IPFS for Linux🎛️ Configuring managed IPFSgenerating ED25519 keypair...donepeer identity: 12D3KooWHZ3C1tDmzUhgi3A6LYmgBxvv1E1obtG7S2ZkYM1MN83initializing IPFS node at /home/yourname/.config/fission/ipfs🔑 Creating keys🏠 Do you have an existing account? [Y/n] nUsername: YOURNAMEEmail: [email protected]✅ Registration successful! Head over to your email to confirm your account.🎛️ Initializing user config file✅ Done! Welcome to Fission, YOURNAME ✨.
When you register a new account, you will be prompted for a username and an email. Fission will send you an email to confirm your account and complete your registration.
The fission setup command will create a global config.yaml file in your ~/.config/fission directory. See the Global Fission YAML guide for more information about the config.yaml file.
The registration process will also create a Fission Drive for you automatically at the URL YOURNAME.fission.name using your Fission username.
If you are signed into a Fission account in a web browser, you can link your account and use it at the command line.
Open the Fission auth lobby in a browser window.
Use fission setup to create and link a CLI user at your command line.
$ fission setup🌱 Setting up environment🪐 Downloading managed IPFS for Linux🎛️ Configuring managed IPFSgenerating ED25519 keypair...donepeer identity: 12D3KooWHZ3C1tDmzUhgi3A6LYmgBxvv1E1obtG7S2ZkYM1MN83initializing IPFS node at /home/thuselem/.config/fission/ipfs🔑 Creating keys🏠 Do you have an existing account? [Y/n] Y🔗 Please open auth.fission.codes on a signed-in device📛 Please enter your username: yeti
When prompted, enter Y to confirm you have an account and enter your username from the browser window. The auth lobby and CLI will display a confirmation code.
When you have confirmed that the codes match, approve in the browser, and the CLI will complete the setup process and link your account.
$ fission setup🌱 Setting up environment🪐 Downloading managed IPFS for Linux🎛️ Configuring managed IPFSgenerating ED25519 keypair...donepeer identity: 12D3KooWHZ3C1tDmzUhgi3A6LYmgBxvv1E1obtG7S2ZkYM1MN83initializing IPFS node at /home/thuselem/.config/fission/ipfs🔑 Creating keys🏠 Do you have an existing account? [Y/n] Y🔗 Please open auth.fission.codes on a signed-in device📛 Please enter your username: yeti🔢 Confirmation code: [6, 0, 9, 1, 2, 3]🎛️ Initializing user config file
Use fission user whoami to display your username.
$ fission user whoami💻 Currently logged in as: fission
