.. _account_preferences:

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Accounts Preferences
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.. image:: accounts-preferences.png
   :width: 550px

In the ``Accounts`` preferences pane, the user can provide the
credentials for their Enthought and (if necessary) Enthought
Deployment Server (EDS) subscription. Most individual Canopy users will not
need to use this page, and can simply continue to log in on the Canopy Welcome
screen as before.

.. note::

   Please make sure that you always test your credentials before
   accepting the preference changes.


Enthought account
=================

The Enthought account is used to contact the ``enthought.com`` servers and
retrieve subscription-level information for the current user. Based on
your subscription level, new features will be available/unlocked (e.g. `Data
Import Tool <https://support.enthought.com/hc/en-us/articles/209775983-Using-the-Canopy-Data-Import-Tool>`_).

For details on subscription levels, please refer to `Canopy's free license: What's the difference?
<https://support.enthought.com/hc/en-us/articles/204469770-Canopy-s-free-license-What-s-the-difference->`_ in the Enthought Support Knowledge Base.


.. note::

   - If you change/set the credentials and accept these changes while online,
     Canopy will immediately attempt to log in on the Enthought servers.

Importing credentials from legacy installations
-----------------------------------------------

At first start Canopy will attempt to import credentials from legacy
``Enpkg``-based installations (e.g. Canopy v1 and EPD) from a number
of standard locations. If Canopy did not find the legacy ``.entaller4rc``
configuration file, please use the ``Import from Enpkg...`` button to
manually browse to the legacy ``Enpkg`` configuration file.


Enthought Deployment Server (EDS)
=================================

By default Canopy is set up to use the Enthought account credentials
and access the Enthought EDS server to download python runtimes and
packages. However, when a custom setup is in use (e.g. a local EDS
server) we need to select the ``Custom Server`` option in the ``EDS
account`` section and provide the URL address and credentials for the
custom EDS Server.