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 Dimension machines. All computers in room 426 and Linux computers in room 406 are running RedHat Enterprise. Linux RedHat 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 class the account is created for. At the end of a semester accounts are archived and not accessible anymore. There are instructions posted in the lab which explain our rules of creating user names and initial passwords for the accounts. Instructions also explain how to use a printer in tha lab. 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 world is lee.cs.miami.edu. This is our server and users are not supposed to run any time consuming jobs on lee. Please 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, please see instructions how to download Shell Client and SSH Secure Transfer Protocol on your home computer. http://www.cs.miami.edu/~irina/install_ssh.html

How to read your e-mail.

You may forward your e-mail to your e-mail account ( gmail, hotmail, aol, etc. ), by editing .forward file. Login to any machine ( or ssh lee.cs.miami.edu , if you setup remote login ) and edit .forward file, using any editor of your choice ( gedit, emacs, vi )

Please do not remove the first line in this file, just add another one, with your email address. Save your changes. The following is an example of .forward

stsm415@mail.cs.miami.edu

stevesmith@gmail.com

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