Sds-hd user access

Registration

Granting access and issuing a user account for SDS@hd requires the registration at the BWServices website https://bwservices.uni-heidelberg.de (step B). However, this registration depends on the sds-hd-user entitlement issued by your university (step A).

Step A: sds-hd-user entitlement for registration

Each university issues the sds-hd-user entitlement only for their own members.

Step B: Web Registration

After step A, i.e., after issueing the sds-hd-user entitlement, please visit:

• https://bwservices.uni-heidelberg.de
  1. Select your home organization from the list and click Proceed
  2. You will be directed to the Identity Provider of your home organisation
  3. Enter your home-organisational user ID / username and your home-organisational password and click Login button
  4. You will be redirected back to the registration website https://bwservices.uni-heidelberg.de/
  5. Select unter The following services are available the service SDS@hd - Scientific Data Storage
  6. Click Register
  7. Finally, set a service password for authentication on SDS@hd

Changing Password

At any time, you can set a new SDS@hd service password via the registration website https://bwservices.uni-heidelberg.de by carrying out the following steps:

1. visit https://bwservices.uni-heidelberg.de and select your home organization
2. authenticate yourself via your home-organizational user id / username and your home-organizational password
3. find on the left side SDS@hd and select Set Service Password
4. set new service password, repeat it and click Save button.
5. the page answers e.g. "Das Passwort wurde bei dem Dienst geändert" ("password has been changed")