• MIT Touchstone is:
  1. A centralized authentication and login service for MIT-community users
     
  2. A centralized authentication and account/profile management service for users outside of the MIT community
     

• Touchstone Accounts are:
  • Free
  • Self-service
  • Web-based
  • Based on open standards including SAML and Shibboleth
  • Shibboleth Single Sign-On enabled

You are a MIT user if you:

• have a MIT Kerberos account
• have a @mit.edu email address
• have a MIT personal certificate

All other users are Guest users

Users with a Kerberos account or personal certificate do not need to create a Collaboration Account to use Stellarthe Wikis. Touchstone supports both Kerberos and certificates.

From the Stellar homepage or CourseGuide Wiki Dashboard or your specific Wiki page, click the @Stellar tab or navigate to the class site you are joining and click the LOGIN link at the top of the left navigation barLog In button in the upper right-hand corner.

If you have cookies enabled, you are directed to the Please choose your account provider page:

1. If you are an MIT user, select MIT Kerberos account (or MIT web certificate)
   • The Touchstone@MIT page is displayed.
   • Choose your preferred login method and click the appropriate button.
   • You are redirected back to
   Stellar
   • the Wikis.
2. If you are a non-MIT user, select Touchstone Collaboration Account.  The red Touchstone Collaboration Accounts login page is displayed.#-
   • If you already have a Touchstone Collaboration Account, enter your user name and password. Complete the login.
   • You are redirected back to
   Stellar
   • the Wikis.
3. If you do not have have a Touchstone Collaboration Account, click select Touchstone Collaboration Account.  The red Touchstone Collaboration Accounts login page is displayed.  Click Not Registered?
   • Complete the form fields
   - be sure to
   • . Note: If you're a returning user and have not accessed Wikis since before Jan 2009, please use the same email address
   you've used with Stellar before if you want to keep access to your class sites from previous semesters - complete the word verification, check
   • to establish your updated account (to ensure your access to previous Wikis)
   • Complete the word verification.
   • Check the Terms of Service box and click
   *
   • "Create Account".
   "
   • Check your email inbox (and spam
   filer
   • filter) for a Collaboration Account activation email from touchstone-support@MIT.EDU containing an activation code and link.
   Click
   • Then click on the link, follow the instructions to activate your account.
   • Go to Step 1 above to access
   Stellar
   • the WIkis with your new account information.