Managing your Ephemeral account

From the User Settings page, you can:

• Upload an image to use to represent your account.

• Change your Ephemeral password.

• Manage your API tokens, used to make calls to the Ephemeral API.

• Manage your SSH tokens, used to connect to an Ephemeral database.

To display the User Settings page:

1. Click your user image at the top right of Ephemeral.

2. In the menu, click User Settings.

User Settings page

Uploading a user image

To change the user image that is displayed at the top right of Ephemeral.

1. Click Upload.

2. Search for and select the image to use.

Changing your Ephemeral password

To change your Ephemeral password:

1. In the Current password field, type your current Ephemeral password.

2. In the New password field, type the new password that you want to use.

3. In the Repeat new password field, type the new password again.

4. Click Confirm.

Managing your API tokens

To make calls to the Ephemeral API, you must have an API token. From the User Settings page, you can create and revoke API tokens.

Creating an API token

To create an API token:

1. Under User API Token, click Create Token.

2. On the token creation panel, in the Name field, type a name for the token.

3. Click Create API Key.

4. On the confirmation panel, to copy the key to the clipboard, click Copy to Clipboard.

Removing an API token

To remove an API token from the list:

1. Click the Delete option for the token.

2. On the confirmation panel, click Delete.

Managing SSH tokens

Ephemeral databases are protected behind an SSH bastion. The connection details for each database include both the database connection and the bastion connection.

When you connect to an Ephemeral database, you provide the private key to connect to the bastion. Your Ephemeral account must have a corresponding public key associated with it.

From the User Settings page, you can add and remove the public key values.

Adding an SSH token

To add an SSH public key to your account:

1. Under SSH Token, click Add SSH Token.

2. In the Name field, type a name to assign to the token.

3. In the Key field, paste the public key value.

4. Click Add SSH Key.

Removing an SSH token

To remove an SSH public key from the list:

1. Click the Delete option for the token.

2. On the confirmation panel, click Delete.