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= Portal Reservation =
When the students reserve resources through the portal then the lead and the admin gets accounts in the compute resources as well. 
Let's try that:
  1. Login to the portal and load the ''Slice'' Tab
  2. Choose the slice called `sliceaccess-portal`
  3. Check the status for all the aggregates in the slice. Where does this slice have resources?
  4. Press the ''Details'' button and wait until all the information is loaded.
  5. Login to the node using your own account

= Reservation with other tools =
When students are reserving resource with other tools then only their key is created on the nodes. To help your students debug in this case you should ask your students to load to their account a common public key. This process has two steps
== Generate and load SSH Keypairs ==
To generate an SSH Key pair use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen keygen]. 
  1. In a terminal run
  {{{
  ssh-keygen
  }}}
  2. Follow the instructions:
    * You can name your key anything you like, for this exercise name it `common-key` 
    *  Make sure to remember the passphrase you set. 
  3. Run `ls` to see the contents of your directory. There should be two files generated from the previous command:
    * `common-key`: This is the private key
    * `common-key.pub`: This is the public key
    Tip: If you have too many files try to filter the output to be easier to find you keys. Try:
    {{{
       ls comm*
    }}}