navsection: userguide
title: "Checking your environment"
...
+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
First, log into an Arvados VM instance (instructions for "Webshell":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/vm-login-with-webshell.html or "Unix":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-unix.html#login or "Windows":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-windows.html#login) or install the Arvados "Command line SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/cli/install.html and "Python SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/python/sdk-python.html on your workstation.
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<pre><code>$ <span class="userinput">arv user current</span>
{
- "href":"https://qr1hi.arvadosapi.com/arvados/v1/users/qr1hi-xioed-9z2p3pn12yqdaem",
+ "href":"https://zzzzz.arvadosapi.com/arvados/v1/users/zzzzz-xioed-9z2p3pn12yqdaem",
"kind":"arvados#user",
"etag":"8u0xwb9f3otb2xx9hto4wyo03",
- "uuid":"qr1hi-tpzed-92d3kxnimy3d4e8",
- "owner_uuid":"qr1hi-tpqed-23iddeohxta2r59",
+ "uuid":"zzzzz-tpzed-92d3kxnimy3d4e8",
+ "owner_uuid":"zzzzz-tpqed-23iddeohxta2r59",
"created_at":"2013-12-02T17:05:47Z",
- "modified_by_client_uuid":"qr1hi-xxfg8-owxa2oa2s33jyej",
- "modified_by_user_uuid":"qr1hi-tpqed-23iddeohxta2r59",
+ "modified_by_client_uuid":"zzzzz-xxfg8-owxa2oa2s33jyej",
+ "modified_by_user_uuid":"zzzzz-tpqed-23iddeohxta2r59",
"modified_at":"2013-12-02T17:07:08Z",
"updated_at":"2013-12-05T19:51:08Z",
"email":"you@example.com",