Brown cs ssh setup

Use your CS login and the passphrase you selected above. If this is your first time logging in, or you recently changed your University password, you will additionally prompted for your Brown username and password followed by Duo 2-factor auth.

Subsequent logins will skip this step. Setting up Pageant optional This will cache your private key and key passphrase so that you don't have to enter your passphrase every time you ssh.

Right-click on the Pageant icon in the taskbar. Select "Add SSH key" and browse to where your private key is stored. Enter your key passphrase when prompted. Next time you run PuTTY, you shouldn't need to enter your passphrase. Click on the "Session" button on the top right It should display a screen prompting for you to "Choose as session type To run a program with graphics, run it as you normally would from the command line.

See the man page for details. If all you want to do is transfer files, you can use our anonymous FTP server. Anyone can ftp files from the outside in, but you will need to contact the tstaff to have a directory set up for outgoing transfers.

See the FTP page. Sign In. This page describes how to get at department computing resources from outside the department. What does remote access let me do? Here are step-by-step guides to setting up and logging in using each method: SSH OpenVPN Passwords All remote access methods authenticate you when you connect, so you never have to type your unix account password. SSH Ssh Secure Shell is a program used for logging onto a remote machine or for executing commands on a remote machine.

It provides secure encrypted communications between two hosts over an unsecured network. Start by downloading the program XQuartz here. Once the install wizard finishes, log out of your personal computer and log back in to finish the installation process.

XQuartz will not work properly unless you do so. You can now use the OSX Terminal search for 'Terminal' using Mac's Spotlight Search function to find it and use that to ssh to the department machines. To do so:. Keypair Authentication Setup In a terminal, run the command ssh-keygen -t rsa Accept the default location for the key files.