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# User account
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When signed into their GitLab account, users can customize their
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experience according to the best approach to their cases.
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## Signing in
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There are several ways to sign into your GitLab account.
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See the [authentication topic](../../topics/authentication/index.md) for more details.
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## User profile
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Your profile is available from the up-right corner menu bar (user's avatar) > **Profile**,
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or from `https://example.gitlab.com/username`.
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On your profile page, you will see the following information:
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- Personal information
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- Activity stream: see your activity streamline and the history of your contributions
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- Groups: [groups](../group/index.md) you're a member of
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- Contributed projects: [projects](../project/index.md) you contributed to
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- Personal projects: your personal projects (respecting the project's visibility level)
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- Snippets: your personal code [snippets](../snippets.md#personal-snippets)
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## Profile settings
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You can edit your account settings by navigating from the up-right corner menu bar
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(user's avatar) > **Settings**, or visiting `https://example.gitlab.com/profile`.
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From there, you can:
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- Update your personal information
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- Set a [custom status](#current-status) for your profile
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- Manage your [commit email](#commit-email) for your profile
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- Manage [2FA](account/two_factor_authentication.md)
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- Add details of [external accounts](#add-details-of-external-accounts).
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- Change your username and [delete your account](account/delete_account.md)
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- Manage applications that can
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[use GitLab as an OAuth provider](../../integration/oauth_provider.md#introduction-to-oauth)
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- Manage [personal access tokens](personal_access_tokens.md) to access your account via API and authorized applications
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- Add and delete emails linked to your account
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- Choose which email to use for notifications, web-based commits, and display on your public profile
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- Manage [SSH keys](../../ssh/README.md) to access your account via SSH
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- Manage your [preferences](preferences.md#syntax-highlighting-theme)
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to customize your own GitLab experience
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- [View your active sessions](active_sessions.md) and revoke any of them if necessary
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- Access your audit log, a security log of important events involving your account
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## Changing your username
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Your `username` is a unique [`namespace`](../group/index.md#namespaces)
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related to your user ID. Changing it can have unintended side effects, read
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[how redirects will behave](../project/index.md#redirects-when-changing-repository-paths)
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before proceeding.
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To change your `username`:
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1. Navigate to your [profile's](#profile-settings) **Settings > Account**.
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1. Enter a new username under "Change username".
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1. Hit **Update username**.
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CAUTION: **Caution:**
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It is currently not possible to change your username if it contains a
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project with [Container Registry](../project/container_registry.md) tags,
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because the project cannot be moved.
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TIP: **Tip:**
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If you want to retain ownership over the original namespace and
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protect the URL redirects, then instead of changing a group's path or renaming a
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username, you can create a new group and transfer projects to it.
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Alternatively, you can follow [this detailed procedure from the GitLab Team Handbook](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/tools-and-tips/#how-to-change-your-username-at-gitlabcom)
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which also covers the case where you have projects hosted with
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[GitLab Pages](../project/pages/index.md).
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## Private profile
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The following information will be hidden from the user profile page (`https://gitlab.example.com/username`) if this feature is enabled:
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- Atom feed
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- Date when account is created
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- Activity tab
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- Groups tab
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- Contributed projects tab
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- Personal projects tab
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- Snippets tab
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To enable private profile:
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1. Navigate to your personal [profile settings](#profile-settings).
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1. Check the "Private profile" option.
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1. Hit **Update profile settings**.
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NOTE: **Note:**
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You and GitLab admins can see your the abovementioned information on your profile even if it is private.
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## Add details of external accounts
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GitLab allows you to add links to certain other external accounts you might have, like Skype and Twitter. They can help other users connect with you on other platforms.
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To add links to other accounts:
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1. Navigate to your **User Settings > Profile**.
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1. In the **Main settings** section, locate and fill out fields for links to external accounts like Skype and Twitter.
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1. Click the **Update profile settings** button.
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## Private contributions
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14078) in GitLab 11.3.
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Enabling private contributions will include contributions to private projects, in the user contribution calendar graph and user recent activity.
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To enable private contributions:
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1. Navigate to your personal [profile settings](#profile-settings).
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1. Check the "Private contributions" option.
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1. Hit **Update profile settings**.
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## Current status
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> Introduced in GitLab 11.2.
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You can provide a custom status message for your user profile along with an emoji that describes it.
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This may be helpful when you are out of office or otherwise not available.
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Other users can then take your status into consideration when responding to your issues or assigning work to you.
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Please be aware that your status is publicly visible even if your [profile is private](#private-profile).
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To set your current status:
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1. Open the user menu in the top-right corner of the navigation bar.
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1. Hit **Set status**, or **Edit status** if you have already set a status.
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1. Set the emoji and/or status message to your liking.
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1. Hit **Set status**. Alternatively, you can also hit **Remove status** to remove your user status entirely.
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or
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1. Navigate to your personal [profile settings](#profile-settings).
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1. In the text field below `Your status`, enter your status message.
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1. Select an emoji from the dropdown if you like.
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1. Hit **Update profile settings**.
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Status messages are restricted to 100 characters of plain text.
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They may however contain emoji codes such as `I'm on vacation :palm_tree:`.
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You can also set your current status [using the API](../../api/users.md#user-status).
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## Commit email
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/21598) in GitLab 11.4.
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A commit email, is the email that will be displayed in every Git-related action done through the
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GitLab interface.
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You are able to select from the list of your own verified emails which email you want to use as the commit email.
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To change it:
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1. Open the user menu in the top-right corner of the navigation bar.
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1. Hit **Commit email** selection box.
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1. Select any of the verified emails.
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1. Hit **Update profile settings**.
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### Private commit email
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/22560) in GitLab 11.5.
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GitLab provides the user with an automatically generated private commit email option,
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which allows the user to not make their email information public.
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To enable this option:
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1. Open the user menu in the top-right corner of the navigation bar.
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1. Hit **Commit email** selection box.
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1. Select **Use a private email** option.
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1. Hit **Update profile settings**.
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Once this option is enabled, every Git-related action will be performed using the private commit email.
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In order to stay fully annonymous, you can also copy this private commit email
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and configure it on your local machine using the following command:
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```
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git config --global user.email "YOUR_PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL"
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```
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## Troubleshooting
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### Why do I keep getting signed out?
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When signing in to the main GitLab application, a `_gitlab_session` cookie is
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set. `_gitlab_session` is cleared client-side when you close your browser
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and expires after "Application settings -> Session duration (minutes)"/`session_expire_delay`
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(defaults to `10080` minutes = 7 days).
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When signing in to the main GitLab application, you can also check the
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"Remember me" option which sets the `remember_user_token`
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cookie (via [`devise`](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise)).
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`remember_user_token` expires after
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`config/initializers/devise.rb` -> `config.remember_for` (defaults to 2 weeks).
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When the `_gitlab_session` expires or isn't available, GitLab uses the `remember_user_token`
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to get you a new `_gitlab_session` and keep you signed in through browser restarts.
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After your `remember_user_token` expires and your `_gitlab_session` is cleared/expired,
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you will be asked to sign in again to verify your identity (which is for security reasons).
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