User Logins

Introduction

Logging in remotely

Logging in from the command line

• Use the ssh (secure shell) command
• ssh ${login}@linux.cs.rpi.edu -p 22

Logging in using a terminal program like PuTTY, crt, securecrt

• Begin by creating a new host entry in the terminal program.
• Using PuTTY as an example
  • Enter "linux.cs.rpi.edu" as both the host name and Saved Session
  • Change other options in the left panel to taste ( screen/text color )
  • Click [S]ession to return back to the main menu
  • Click [S]ave to save the entry
  • Double click 'linux.cs.rpi.edu' in the Saved Sessions window to connect and login.

Logging in using the campus VPN

• http://helpdesk.rpi.edu/update.do?catcenterkey=168

Remote access machines

• The hostname, remote.cs.rpi.edu, provides the old method of remote access to the CSLab network.
  • This hostname is an alias for a pool of FreeBSD machines.
• The hostname, linux.cs.rpi.edu, provides the current method of remote access to the CSLab network.
  • This hostname is an alias for a pool of Ubuntu machines.

-- JoeyArmstrong - 08 Sep 2009
-- StevenLindsey - 2012-05-10