Computer Science | Vassar College

x2go

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T21:04:42+00:00

X2Go -- Remote Desktop Access About X2Go is a program that lets you use your account's desktop remotely. Imagine that you want to do work using DrRacket (or DrScheme, Netbeans, etc.) from your home computer but don't want to deal with the fuss of copying your work onto your CS account afterwards.

backups

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-26T20:52:53+00:00

FIXME update, convert to wiki, add link to isohome Backup With Tar ---------- * Overview * Creating a tar file of your entire directory * Copying the file to another location * Tar Documentation ---------- Overview While I make regular backups of the home directories on the Computer Science Unix machines, there are times when you want to have your own copy of your account. There are several relatively painless ways to accomplish this task. I will describe one of them here. If you n…

mitm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-05T22:19:50+00:00

Host Key Verification Failed At some point you may attempt to SSH into a server, workstation or device, e.g. “my_server”, that you have logged into before and you encounter a long, scary message as follows that ends with “Host Key Verification Failed

sshkeysmswindows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-31T12:49:58+00:00

SSH Keys on Microsoft Windows using the PuTTY Utility SSH keys are what you will use to establish an encrypted connection over the network, e.g. the internet, between your system and a remote machine. The default type of key to generate is RSA which is good for most purposes. RSA is universally supported among SSH clients. Note that EdDSA performs much faster and provides the same level of security with significantly smaller keys. In general, though, for what you need to do, RSA encryption is …

apple

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-04T00:22:24+00:00

X2Go macOS Installation may * Step 1: ” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version to go to the download page for X2Go. ” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.

windows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-11T14:53:34+00:00

X2Go Windows Installation * Step 1: ” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version to go to the download page for x2go. ” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.

account.size

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-02T18:02:19+00:00

Account Size Here are a few tips for managing the size of your Computer Science Unix account. How Much Space does My Account Use? du -s -h /home/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME This command will give you your total account size. The “-h” stands for “human readable

command_please_not_found

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-20T17:02:22+00:00

Command 'Please' not found If you see this when you use SSH to log into a system Command 'Please' not found, did you mean: command 'please' from deb pleaser (0.5.1-4ubuntu0.22.04.1) Try: apt install and each time you enter a command, this error message is displayed, then something is not right. This means you are logged into a system you should not be logging into but only using as a proxy or gateway. What is likely causing this is that you have some software configu…

drschemonmac

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-02-20T19:44:41+00:00

Getting Dr. Scheme to run on Mac * playonmac (www.playonmac.com) Install this program and then install the windows version of dr scheme. * x2go () Install x2go on your macbook and then connect to the virtual desktop. One advantage here is that you don't have to copy files that you create, that is, they will be in your $HOME directory the next time you log into one of the linux machines in SP309 or the Asprey lab in SP.

filecopy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T20:59:05+00:00

Secure Shell on macOS, Unix, and Linux Installation Any modern Unix-like operating systems should come with secure shell client utilities already installed. This is true for macOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandrake Linux, FreeBSD and many others. If, however, you need a ssh client, you can download one from the openssh website:

forwarding_x11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-14T20:09:25+00:00

Forward X11 Very few systems here are configured to forward X11 via SSH. And this will generally be reserved for request by the faculty and not for classroom computers. If you require a GUI environment then you are strongly encouraged to use the Guacamole server by logging in at

info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-18T15:53:52+00:00

Bash Shell Resources a few articles and tutorials on the web for learning the bash shell * * * * * System Info - User Help ---------- Help for New Users Unix information and help Examples for …

vnc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T21:02:46+00:00

Using VNC What is VNC? NOTE: VNC is deprecated. For all remote desktop access, we ask that you use X2Go (found here). VNC is a system for interacting with a computer display remotely, over a network. This technology was developed by AT&T Laboratories, and is now available for free over the internet (distributed under the GNU General Public License. Visit the