Shell access is available on Maseeh College Unix systems

Use your UNIX login name and password when you connect to the following hosts:

Telnet Services have been terminated

We no longer provide inbound telnet services on our supported Solaris and Linux systems. In our quest to eliminate as many insecure protocols as possible, telnet has gotten the axe. Please use one of the SSH clients listed below to login to our systems.

Secure Shell - ssh

If you wish to log on to a remote computer from a Maseeh College supported UNIX lab computer, use the ssh (Secure Shell) command:

ssh hostname

hostname is the name of the computer (or the IP address) you want to connect to (e.g. betelgeuse.cs.pdx.edu or apollo.ece.pdx.edu).

If you need to login as a different user there are two things you can do:

• Use the -l username option (where username is the user you wish to login as).
           ssh -l username hostname
   
  
• Specify your user name before the host name:
          ssh username@hostname

If you wish to log on to a remote computer from a computer running Windows or from a Maseeh College-supported Windows lab computer, use a terminal emulator like PuTTY with SSH version 2. Secure Shell uses strong encryption, which keeps communication with the remote machine secure.

Here's a list of free SSH implementations available on the net:

Download and install SSH on the machine you will be connecting from.
For more info on SSH go here

We are currently running: SSH compatible with protocol version 1.5 & 2.0. Our SSH servers support RSAREF.

NOTE: We recommend against using any SSH program that does not support SSH version 2. We will be switching to version 2 exclusively in the future due to security flaws in version 1. Recent versions of PuTTY and MacSSH support both SSH2 and port forwarding.