#Your Fjord Account

A Fjord Account is the single identity you use across the platform. It holds your sign-in credentials, your active sessions, and your two-factor settings, and it is what owns the Forgejo instances you provision. Identity, sessions, and 2FA are handled centrally, so the same account signs you in to the web dashboard, the mobile app, and the fj CLI.

#Create an account and sign in

Sign up and sign in from the landing site at fjord.sh. You can sign in with a username and password, and the account supports OpenID Connect single sign-on where it is offered. Once you are signed in, the dashboard lists the instances you own and lets you provision new ones.

#Verify your email

New accounts must confirm their email address before the platform unlocks. Right after you sign up, Fjord takes you to a verification screen and emails the address you registered a confirmation link and a short code. Follow the link, or enter the code on that screen, to verify.

Until your email is verified, the account exists but is gated: provisioning instances and the rest of the dashboard stay locked behind the verification step. You can still sign out and come back to finish verifying later.

If the message does not arrive, the verification screen can resend it. Resends are rate-limited (a short cooldown between sends, and only a few per address in a given window), and each link and code expires after 24 hours, so request a fresh one if it lapses.

#Two-factor authentication

Your Fjord Account supports two second factors, which you manage from the account security area:

• Authenticator app (TOTP). Scan the setup QR code with any authenticator and confirm a code to enable it. Keep your recovery codes somewhere safe; they are the way back in if you lose the device.
• Security keys (WebAuthn). Register a hardware key or platform authenticator for phishing-resistant sign-in.

You can disable a factor or regenerate recovery codes from the same area after re-confirming your password.

#Sessions and devices

The account tracks your active web sessions and the devices that have signed in. You can review them and revoke any session or device you no longer recognize, or sign out everywhere at once. Signing out of the dashboard ends that session.

#Connect your other clients

The same account drives every Fjord client:

• Mobile. Sign in to the Fjord app with your Fjord Account to reach the instances you own.
• CLI. Authenticate once with fj auth login, then list and select instances with fj instances. Tokens are stored in your operating system’s keychain when one is available, otherwise in a permission-restricted (0600) file.

#Closing your account

You can close your account from the account area. Closure deactivates your sign-in and invalidates your sessions immediately. Your account and its data are then retained for a 90-day window (during which you can still export), after which the account is anonymized: your identifying details are scrubbed while the retention window and legal obligations in the privacy policy are honored. See Security and privacy for how the export and anonymization windows work.