Is it possible to have multiple accounts & passkeys?

[FoldingFodder]

Is it possible to have multiple accounts and their associated passkeys attached to the same email account?

I have F@H running on more than one computer and would like each computer to have its own account so i can keep an eye on how well each computer is processing work units. I don't care about leader boards, which is why i'm not putting them on the same account.

I attempted to set up a second passkey but got the following error:

ERROR: Last email to this address sent less than 4 hours ago. Try again later.

[rwh202]

A passkey is linked to an email address, not a user name.

You can use the same passkey with as many user names you want - it will need to complete 10 WUs with each user name before that one earns the Quick Return Bonus.

That way, you can query by the passkey and get a cumulative total, or each username separately and track clients separately that way.

[FoldingFodder]

That way, you can query by the passkey and get a cumulative total, or each username separately and track clients separately that way.

I assume that even if a client is configured with a username, team, and passkey, if i were to use a generic username, when querying the username, it would return the results for the username originally registered by someone else.

I ask because when i initially set my F@H clients a few days ago i used just generic usernames, Eg. 1, 2, 3, etc, with no passkey. When i looked at the history for 1, 2, and 3, it returned results that were not mine.

[rwh202]

That way, you can query by the passkey and get a cumulative total, or each username separately and track clients separately that way.

I assume that even if a client is configured with a username, team, and passkey, if i were to use a generic username, when querying the username, it would return the results for the username originally registered by someone else.

I ask because when i initially set my F@H clients a few days ago i used just generic usernames, Eg. 1, 2, 3, etc, with no passkey. When i looked at the history for 1, 2, and 3, it returned results that were not mine.

Yes, it will return the other users too. Hopefully none in the same team. It used to be possible to search for user + passkey combined - will need to check if that is still the case.

Edit:
Not seeing a nice easy way to search, but hitting the API directly should do the trick:

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https://api.foldingathome.org/user/yourname/stats?passkey=xxxxxyourpasskeyxxxxx&team=yourteamnumber

[Joe_H]

A passkey is linked to an email address, not a user name.

Actually linked to the combination of username and email address entered at the time the passkey was requested. Different username or email submitted gets a different passkey. Submitting the same of both, you get the same passkey.

Otherwise there is no link between the information used to get a passkey and what you enter into the client. You can use the same passkey as stated with any number of different usernames. Just each username and passkey pair needs to complete 10 WUs before getting the bonus.

There is no enforcement on usernames being unique, only passkeys are unique. Any number of other people could have used the same username. And as currently configured, the stats reports are case insensitive so 'John' and 'john' both match.

Web Control stats lookups are for username and passkey combined.