CMIS
Login to servers via SSH
To log on to your account you will need to start the SSH client program that you downloaded and installed. See this if you have not downloaded the SSH client. Please note that you will not be able to use basic telnet. What we will be using is a secure (encrypted) version of telnet.
Once you have started the program, click on the button called "QuickConnect". This will open a window asking for some information. You will enter either the name of the machine (hermes.bcrl.stcloudstate.edu) into the location entry. In the user entry please put the username that is your first inital and your last name. The rest of the information is correct, so press enter or click OK. After a moment or two a window will appear asking for you password, enter it here then press enter or click OK.
You should now be logged into hermes, the student server. This is where all of the labs that you will be doing are going to be done. This is also where password changes should be performed, using the kpasswd command. To run the command and change your password type in kpasswd and press enter. You will be prompted for your current password, then twice for your new password. You must change your password at your first login.
Using SSH
You will need to use Secure Shell (SSH) to access the machine you will be using during the course. You can get SSH from http://www.ssh.com The version that you should get is the free non-commercial version, for academic and personal use only. Please note that this is only for Windows users, if you use *NIX or MACs please try to get a version from your OS provider. Also if you use *NIX or MACs you might try http://www.openssh.org This is a open source version of SSH.