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Within Rancher, each user has a number of settings associated with their login: personal preferences, API keys, etc. You can configure these settings by choosing from the **User Settings** menu. You can open this menu by clicking your avatar, located within the main menu.

![User Settings Menu](/img/user-settings.png)

The available user settings are:

- [API & Keys](api-keys.md): If you want to interact with Rancher programmatically, you need an API key. Follow the directions in this section to obtain a key.
- [Cloud Credentials](manage-cloud-credentials.md): Manage cloud credentials [used by node templates](../../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider.md#node-templates) to [provision nodes for clusters](../../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher.md).
- [Node Templates](manage-node-templates.md): Manage templates [used by Rancher to provision nodes for clusters](../../how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher.md).
- [Preferences](user-preferences.md): Sets superficial preferences for the Rancher UI.
- Log Out: Ends your user session.
