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Welcome to Red Hat. As a new user or even a longtime user of Red Hat products, it's important to keep your account information, user profile, and community profile up-to-date. Learn how to access your information, and understand the benefits of personalizing your preferences.   

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Set up your Customer Portal community profile

8 mins

Your Red Hat Customer Portal community profile and notification preferences designate your interests to other members of the Customer Portal community when you contribute to discussions or share solutions and ideas. Your preferences also help ensure you receive content that is most relevant to you.

To access your Customer Portal community profile:

  1. Select your avatar (in the top corner of your screen)
  2. Select Community profile.

Under the Profile tab you can:

  • Upload a photo
  • Update your industry
  • Create a bio
  • Browse your recent Customer Portal activity
  • Access your private groups

Be sure to save profile changes as you make them.


Under the Notifications tab, you can: 

  • Designate your communication preferences for Customer Portal activities
  • Subscribe to various types of Customer Portal content
  • View and manage your active content notifications

Creating content notifications gives you the ability to stay connected to the topics that matter most to you and your organization. 

For example, if you are interested in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® security, you can:

  1. Select Create a new notification.
  2. Choose Products from the content type dropdown.
  3. Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  4. Select Add another option to further filter by security related content.

Be sure to save your preference updates as you make them. 

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