Linux Lab Class Accounts

The computer lab is available for the students who take classes at the Computer Science Department. The lab is located in room 426, Ungar Building, 4^th floor. The lab has 21 Dell Precision 390 machines. All computers in room 426 and 4 computers in room 406 to the right from the entrance are running Linux. Linux computers in room 406 can be used if there is a class in room 426. 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. 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 from the outside is lee.cs.miami.edu. This is our server and users are not supposed to run any time consuming jobs on lee. See /usr/local/etc/hostnames for the list of the machines you can login from lee via ssh. It is recommended to ssh to any machine from this list immediately after you ssh lee. 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 want to change your password after you login, please use yppasswd command