HOW-TO use SSH to establish a remote connection and transfer files

• This document describes HOW-TO get and install the appropriate SSH client and HOW-TO establish secure connections to CSL Unix computers for FTP, telnet and pop sessions.
• CSL Windows NT workstations can NOT be used except by the person physically sitting at the computer. This is not due to CSL policies, but rather the design of the operating system.
• This document assumes that you have a network connection; for example: a dial-up connection through WiscWorld or a resnet connection.
• Computers that are available for remote connection:
  • route66.cs.wisc.edu - available for secure ftp to all users (intended especially for use by users with only Windows NT accounts.
  • best-nova.cs.wisc.edu has been designed to select the workstation with the LOWEST load on the CPU. This is for use by users with an instructional Unix account who are connecting remotely.
  • best-sol.cs.wisc.edu has been designed to work just like best-nova, but within the sol1-40 workstation group.
  • nova1-nova40.cs.wisc.edu and sol1-sol40.cs.wisc.edu are available for ssh (secure remote connection) to users with an instructional Unix account.
• Remote connections must be via an ssh client

• Computer Systems Lab Documentation
  • 2 HOW-TOs and Other Advanced Documentation
    • 2.2 HOW-TO use SSH to establish a remote connection and transfer files
      • 2.2.1 Unix HOW-TO
        • 2.2.1.1 Getting and installing SSH for Unix systems
        • 2.2.1.2 Setting up port forwarding on Unix
        • 2.2.1.3 Transferring files from my home Unix workstation to my CS account
        • 2.2.1.4 Reading POP mail from a home Unix workstation using SSH
      • 2.2.2 Windows HOW-TO
        • 2.2.2.1 Getting and installing SSH for Windows 95, 98 and NT systems
        • 2.2.2.2 Establishing a secure session (SSH) using secureCRT on my home Windows computer
        • 2.2.2.3 Transferring files from my home Windows workstation to my CS account
        • 2.2.2.4 Reading POP mail from my home Windows workstation using SSH
      • 2.2.3 Macintosh SSH information

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2.2.1 Unix HOW-TO

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2.2.2 Windows HOW-TO

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2.2.3 Macintosh SSH information

There is currently no Macintosh SSH program available from DOIT; however, in the future DOIT will be selling a program called F-Secure, which is an SSH client for the Macintosh.

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