[cs615asa] accessing drude.cs.stevens.edu

[Jan Schaumann]

Hello,

Accessing drude.cs.stevens.edu is done via ssh-key authentication only.
That is, you will not have a password, but a passphrase.  The passphrase
is the one you chose when you generated the keypair (which may have been
an empty passphrase, though for obvious reasons I'd advise against
that).

That means that you can only access drude.cs.stevens.edu from a host
that has the private key installed and you need to tell ssh to use that
key.

From a unix host, this is as simple as

ssh drude.cs.stevens.edu

if you stored the private key in ~/.ssh/id_dsa or ~/.ssh/id_rsa (the
defaults).  If you used a different name, you'd use

ssh -i ~/.ssh/keyname drude.cs.stevens.edu

The prompt should be (for example):

Enter passphrase for key '/home/jschauma/.ssh/keyname': 

If you have problems, please first try to find the answer yourself by

- reading the manual pages for ssh(1) and ssh_config(5)
- searching the internet for "ssh key authentication" or "how to use ssh
  key authentication" or something similar

If you're positive that you have done everything correctly, please send
a mail to this list (not to me in private) with the output of the exact
command you ran (add "-v" for additional debugging information).

If somebody has problems and sends a message to this list and you think
you might know the answer, please respond on this list.

Trying to figure out why things don't work and asking people for help is
a normal process and a daily routine in the life of a system
administrator, so I won't be responding to individual queries on this
matter unless I determine a specific problem to the account in question.

Thanks,
-Jan
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