Signing in

GateKeeper uses your GCD Tech Google account. There is no separate password, and there's nothing to set up the first time — but somebody does have to create your account before you can get in.

Signing in

Go to the GateKeeper site and click Sign in with Google. Pick your @gcdtech.com account and you'll land on the dashboard.

Only @gcdtech.com addresses are accepted. If you're signed into a personal Google account in the same browser, pick the right one from the account chooser — a personal account will be rejected even if it's the one Google offers first.

"No GateKeeper account exists for this email"

Signing in with Google proves who you are; it doesn't grant you anything. Somebody with user administration rights has to create your GateKeeper account first. If you see this message, ask in the team channel — it's a one-off and takes a moment.

Sessions last an hour

Every session GateKeeper gives you expires within the hour. This is a hard limit from AWS, not a setting anyone can raise.

In practice you shouldn't notice. The website quietly renews itself in the background before your session lapses, and the gatekeeper CLI does the same. You'll only be asked to sign in again if that quiet renewal can't happen — usually because you've signed out of Google, or you're signed into several Google accounts and the browser can't tell which one to use.

What the hour does affect is credentials you've already copied somewhere else. A set of AWS keys you pasted into a terminal an hour ago has stopped working, and no amount of refreshing the website will revive them — ask for a new session. If you regularly hit this, use the command line tool, which handles it for you.

Signing out

Use Sign out in the header. This clears your GateKeeper session and stops the browser automatically signing you back in.

Signing out doesn't reach into AWS and kill sessions you've already been given — those still run their hour. If you need something cut off immediately rather than within the hour, that's a conversation with whoever administers GateKeeper, not something signing out achieves.