Difference between revisions of "How to access the cluster with MobaXterm"

Start MobaXterm and create a session

Select an SSH session and enter the Euler hostname (euler.ethz.ch)

This session is saved automatically under the hostname.

Enter your ETH account username and password

Upon a successful login, you can see the welcome banner and links to this Wiki, Smartdesk and cluster support

Edit session

You can specify username and session name

Start MobaKeyGen

Select ed25519 algorithm and generate SSH keys

Enter a passphrase, and save the public key (optional) and the public key (compulsory)

Edit session

Enable using private key and select the private key file

Log in to the cluster and open the file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys with a text editor

This file should have the reading and writing permission only for you, the owner of the file (-rw-------). Otherwise, you can change the permission with the command

chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys

Copy the public key to the file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on the cluster

The next time you start the session, enter the passphrase to log in to the cluster

Go to Configuration

Enable Use internal SSH agent "MobAgent" and Forward SSH agents

Click the plus sign to select the private key

Then, you have to restart MobaXterm to apply the modifications.

Enter the passphrase at the start of MobaXterm

Then, you can start an SSH session without entering password or passphrase