Unix—Connecting to your account

1. From the Mac Lab
2. From Home -- Windows
3. From Home -- Mac OS X

You may also find CSCF's Secure Shell (SSH) Resources useful.

Connecting from the Mac Lab

• Start the X11 server (the X icon in the dock bar at the bottom of your screen).
• From the X11 Applications menu at the top, choose "xterm on ...". (It doesn't matter which one, as long as it's on a Linux server and not "on this Mac".)
• You will see a warning about xauth, which can be ignored, followed by the message of the day (motd), followed by a prompt. You are now logged in. If this is the first time you are logging on, you will be prompted for information about yourself. Press Enter each time to accept the default values.

Connecting from Home — Windows

If you need to download a copy of the SSH client for use at home, follow these steps:

1. Go to http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/download/.
2. Click on the Windows SSH client link under the Applications menu.
3. If a prompt appears, log in using your Quest user id and password.
4. Download the SSH client by clicking on "Download the latest version 3.2.9".
5. Open the file to install the software.

Then, to use the program:

• Start the Secure Shell Client from the Start Menu
• Press the Quick Connect button.
• Then enter the following using your own account information:
  1. Host Name: linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca (or any other CS standard environment server)
  2. User Name: Your UW username (e.g. tanderso)
  3. Port Number: 22 (leave as the default)
  4. Authentication Method: You can leave this as Profile Settings (change to Keyboard Interactive if this does not work)
  and click on the Connect button.
• When you connect for the first time, the host will provide you with its public host identification key. Click 'Yes' to save this key to the local database.
• Enter your password to connect to the host. Click the "OK" button.
• You are now logged in. If this is the first time you are logging on, you will be prompted for information about yourself. Press Enter each time to accept the default values.

NOTE: Once you have followed steps 1-5 once, you do not have to keep re-downloading the client every time you would like to log in. Simply execute the client and follow the instructions to log into your CS standard environment account from home.

Connecting from Home — Mac OS X

• Mac OS X comes with an SSH client: In Finder, go to Applications --> Utilities and open Terminal
• Enter ssh -l UWUsername HostServerName
  where the l in -l is the lowercase letter L, UWUsername is replaced with your username and HostServerName is replaced with, for example, linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca (or any other CS standard environment server)
• When you connect for the first time, you will not have the hosts authentication key, so type yes to the prompt to continue connecting.
• Enter your CS standard environment password.
• You are now logged in. If this is the first time you are logging on to the CS standard environment, you may be prompted for information about yourself. Press Enter each time to accept the default values.