ColdFront is a community supported allocation management system for HPC environments. We are working towards phasing out our current allocation management system (RCAMP) because of time/cost of maintaining the software in-house. We have setup a development environment as a proof of concept and worked through some of our initial concerns to verify ColdFront could work for us. This work focuses on the separation of account management versus allocation management. Out of the box, ColdFront’s account management capabilities are limited. We will walk through different approaches to authenticating users and how they gain access to allocations.