Manage Your Couchbase Capella Account
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Couchbase Capella accounts are independent of organizations.
Your Couchbase Capella account is your personal account that you use to sign in to the Couchbase Capella UI. Your account can be part of multiple organizations, and you can manage your account settings independently from your organizations.
To manage your Couchbase Capella account settings:
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Click your initials in the upper-right corner of the Capella UI.
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Click My Account to open your account management page.
In My Account, you can:
Manage General Settings
| Users who sign in with SSO cannot change their name, email, password, or activate Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings. |
To manage your profile’s general settings and information, go to General. You can manage the following settings:
Change Your Profile Name
To change your account’s profile name, go to the Name field and enter a new profile name. Click Save to save your changes.
Change Your Password
To change your password:
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In Login Credentials, click Reset Password to manage your password settings.
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Enter your existing password, and then enter and confirm your new password. Your new password must contain:
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At least 12 characters
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Uppercase characters (A-Z)
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Lowercase characters (a-z)
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Numbers (0-9)
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Special characters, such as @, #, or $
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Click Change Password to save your changes.
| You can also reset your password by selecting Forgot Password from the log-in screen, which will send you a recovery email. You can only receive 1 password reset email per minute. |
Activate Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
| Users who sign in with SSO cannot use Capella’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution. Instead, they use the configured identity provider’s MFA. |
To activate MFA for your Capella account, go to the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) field and click Activate MFA.
For more information about activating MFA for your Capella account, see Manage Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
Update Region and Time
To update the region and time:
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Click Region and select the part of the world you live in.
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Click Timezone and select the time relative to where you are within your geographical region.
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Click Save to save your changes.
Enable Email Notifications
You can enable email notifications to receive email alerts from all clusters in projects where you have a project role.
To enable email notifications, select Receive email notifications and click Save to save your changes.
Link Your Capella Account to a Google or GitHub Account
You can sign in to your existing Capella account using a Google account or GitHub account that has the same email as your Capella account.
To link an existing Capella account to a Google or GitHub Account, go to the Couchbase Capella Sign-in page.
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GitHub Account
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Google Account
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In GitHub, make sure that your primary email address is the same as the email address that your Capella account uses.
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In GitHub, make sure that your primary email address is verified.
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In GitHub, make sure your primary email address is public.
To set a public GitHub email address:
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Sign in to GitHub, and on your profile menu, click Settings.
Your Public profile page should display.
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In the navigation pane, click Emails.
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Clear Keep my email addresses private.
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Return to the Public Profile page and select your primary email address from the Public email list.
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Click Update profile to save the changes.
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Click GitHub.
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Follow the GitHub prompts to sign in to your GitHub account.
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Click Link GitHub Account
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Enter your Capella account password, and if you have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) turned on, a MFA time-based one-time password (TOTP).
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Click Verify and Link.
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In Google, make sure your primary email address is the same as the email address that your Capella account uses.
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If your Google account uses a non-Google email, make sure that your account is verified.
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Click Google.
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Follow the Google prompts to sign in to your Google account.
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Click Link Google Account
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Enter your Capella account password, and if you have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) turned on, a MFA time-based one-time password (TOTP).
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Click Verify and Link.
Unlink Your Capella Account from a Google or GitHub Account
To unlink your Couchbase Capella account from a Google or GitHub account:
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On your profile page, click Unlink from Google or Unlink from GitHub.
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Enter a new password for your Capella account and confirm it.
If Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is on for your Capella account, Capella keeps this, and you’ll need your MFA time-based one-time password (TOTP) to sign in to your account after unlinking from a Google or GitHub account. -
Click Unlink from Google or Unlink from GitHub.
The next time you sign in, you must use your email address and the new password that you set.
Manage Invitations
To view and accept your new invitations to organizations and projects, go to Invitations.
For more information about sending invitations, see Organization Users.
Manage Organizations
To view a list of the organizations where you’re a member, go to Organizations. Click on the name of an organization to open its Organization page, where you can make changes relative to your user permissions.
For more information about Organizations, see Organizations and Organization Users Overview.
View Activity Log
Go to Activity Log to view your user activity logs. The Activity Log provides you with insight into user actions and cluster activity.
For more information, see View Activity Logs.