SSH/SCP/SFTP

Username

The username for logins was provided in the email that was sent with the notification that he account was set up. The username can also be gotten by searching for yourself at https://www2.umbc.edu/search/directory/advanced/ and looking at the results. The string of characters result beneath the campus ID result is the username.

Interactive Servers

CSEE provides interactive login machines:

• Redhat Enterprise Linux 8
  • linuxserver1.cs.umbc.edu
  • linuxserver2.cs.umbc.edu
  • linuxserver3.cs.umbc.edu

Computative Servers

CSEE provides shell access logins for systems to run more math/computative processes, available for classes or research:

• Redhat Enterprise Linux 8
  • virgo1.cs.umbc.edu

SSH Clients

• Macintosh
  • Mac OS X has ssh available at the command line.
• Linux and UNIX
  • On CSEE servers and workstations
    /usr/bin/ssh
  • The portable source is availale from OpenSSH
    Site: http://www.openssh.org
• Windows
  • Putty is the recommened SSH client
    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
  • Windows 10 has command line OpenSSH (ssh command) if Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is installed