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<p>You either open a remote desktop (<a href="../../../Tools/Desktop%20on%20Demand" title="Desktop On Demand">Desktop on Demand</a>) or open a remote terminal using Secure SHell (SSH).<span style="font-weight: bold"><br /></span></p>
<h2>Windows</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/" title="PuTTY Homepage"><cite>PuTTY</cite></a> is a common windows SSH client for windows which is freely downloadable from the internet<span style="font-style: italic">.</span> There is a walk through for using PuTTY <a href="Logging%20in%20remotely/Configuring%20PuTTY" title="PuTTY config walkthrough">here</a></p>
<h2>Mac OS X or Linux</h2>
<p>To connect to the SUCS system from Mac OS X or Linux, open a terminal and type</p>
<kbd>ssh username@sucs.org</kbd>
<p>You will be prompted to enter you password, as long as you get you
password right within two attempts you will see a screen with current
system news at the top and the prompt at the base:</p>
<pre class="console">neptunium:~$ ssh rollercow@sucs.org<br />Last login: Sun Sep 19 18:20:20 2004 from neptunium.sucs.org<br />----------------------------- MESSAGE OF THE DAY ------------------------------<br /><br /> Systems Upgrade - Tuesday May 11th, 18:15<br /> Gateway and Silver have been swapped onto a UPS, so power cuts should<br /> no longer be a problem. Gateway has been changed to a new, faster<br /> machine (yet again) and Silver's CPU has been vastly upgraded.<br /> The Room has also been rearranged to allow much more room for GuestNET<br /> users.<br /><br /> University Network Disruption - Sat Sept 5th, 15:30 - Mon 7th 07:30<br /> The university appears to be dropping traffic consequently causing<br /> most of SUCS' services to disappear from the outside Internet.<br /> Incoming mail has continued to be delivered to mail boxes due to it<br /> taking an alternate route on to campus.<br /><br />----------------------------- [ cat /etc/motd ] -------------------------------<br />You have mail.<br />silver:~$<br /></pre>
<p>Now you are logged in. For a quick guide to some useful UNIX commands, click <a href="../UNIX%20Commands%20and%20Concepts" title="UNIX Commands">here</a>.<br /></p>