# How to get Allas S3 credentials?

How to get Allas S3 credentials: access key and secret key? Each credential pair is linked to a single CSC project.

## 'allas-conf'

Use [`allas-conf`](../../data/Allas/using_allas/allas-conf.md#s3-connection-details) to find out your S3 credentials.
It is pre-installed to CSC supercomputers or can be installed to Linux and Mac.


## openstack API

1. Install [OpenStack command line tools](../../cloud/pouta/install-client.md)

1. Login into OpenStack by following the [Configure your terminal environment for OpenStack](../../cloud/pouta/install-client.md#configure-your-terminal-environment-for-openstack) article.

1. You can either retrieve already created credentials or create new ones

    1. In order to retrieve already created credentials:

        ```sh
        openstack ec2 credentials list
        ```

        It will list the credentials of every project, and you will see only the "Project ID" next to each credential pair. You can use `openstack project list` in order to see all the projects you have access, it will list the name and the id of each of them.

    1. Create new credentials:

        ```sh
        openstack ec2 credentials create
        ```
