Manage DataLad credentials

The ICF store is not publicly available, and ICF administrators will provide user names and passwords on a per-study basis. DataLad will store or retrieve these credentials using your operating system’s keyring service. In general, the first time you use DataLad to access a project directory, you will be prompted for your credentials. If content retrieval succeeds, you will have a possibility of saving the credential, to be reused the next time you access a URL from the same realm.

If you have access to multiple projects, you can have different sets of credentials. You can use the datalad credentials command from DataLad Next to manage (e.g. query, set or remove) credentials known to DataLad.

DataLad usage in the context of GDPR

DataLad is a client-side software. Usage of DataLad with ICF store is technically equivalent to downloading tar archives with wget or with a web browser click-to-download: in either case, data access happens over https, and the authorisation is performed by the ICF server, not by the clients.