Two Linux computer labs are available for the students who take classes at the Computer Science
Department. The first is located in room 305 Ungar and hosts 31 Dell Optiplex 9020 PCs.
They are all configured the same way and run CentOS 7.
The second lab is in room 310T. It hosts 6 Dell Precision T1700. It also has space
for CS students to come and work on their laptops.
If a student takes a CSC class he/she is eligible for a user account in the lab.
For each CSC class a separate account is created. For example if a student
takes csc220 and csc521 two separate accounts will be created in the lab
for this student. These accounts only exist for the duration of a semester and
must be used only for a corresponding class. At the end of
a semester accounts are archived and not accessible anymore. User names and
passwords are distributed in class. If you did not get your username and
password in class, e-mail irina@cs.miami.edu. Each student is assigned the
same password for all his/her Computer Science classes.
User names and passwords are distributed during classes or labs.
Once you know your user name and a password you can login to any computers in
the Lab.
Computers are also available for remote login.
The only machine, available via ssh from the outside is johnston.cs.miami.edu.
This is our server and users are not supposed to ssh to any other machine in the Lab
See file ~irina/hostnames on johnston for the list of the machines. It is recommended
to ssh to any machine from this list immediately after you log in johnston.
If you have Windows, see instructions how to download
Shell Client and SSH Secure Transfer Protocol to your home computer
http://www.cs.miami.edu/~irina/install_ssh.html
If you have Linux ssh is usually installed. MAC also has ssh and sftp available from the terminal.
Another option is to install putty for remote login and pcftp for remote file transfer.