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Warning

These credentials are active for the next few weeks, but will be de-activated on Sunday May 12, 2024, in the eveningat the end of November 2024.

With your studentNN account you can ssh into one of the following servers:

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bash

If you're using PuTTY as your Terminal from Windows:

  • Double-click the Putty icon
  • In the PuTTY Configuration window
    • make sure the Connection type is SSH
    • enter gsafcomp01.ccbb.utexas.edu for Host Name (or gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu)
      • Optional: to save this configuration for further use:
        • Enter gsafcomp into the Saved Sessions text box, then click Save
        • Next time select gsafcomp from the Saved Sessions list and click Load.
    • click Open button
    • answer Yes to the SSH security question
  • In the PuTTY Terminal
    • enter your student account name after the "login as:" prompt, then Enter
    • enter the password associated with our student accounts
      • for security reasons, the text that you enter will not be displayed
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titleLogging in with PuTTY
Code Block
language
export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=1;34:fi=01:ln=01;36:'

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Tip

In the RStudio Terminal, yellow is if the default color for directories , which can be is difficult to see against its white background. Execute , execute this line to display directory names in blue.

Code Block
languagebash
export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=1;34:fi=01:ln=01;36:'

We'll see later how to set this environment variable in your login script (~/.profile) so that it gets executed every time you login to this server.

For now, just copy the appropriate line above, paste it into your Terminal window (after logging on), then press Enter.

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