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

Start PuTTy

Enter Euler hostname (euler.ethz.ch)

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

Enter Euler hostname (euler.ethz.ch) and a session name

Add your username

Save a session

Load a session

Start PuTTYgen

Generate SSH Keys

Enter a passphrase and save the public and private keys

Navigate to the folder you want to save the SSH keys, define the key file name and save it

Create a session or load a session. Then, go to the Auth section to add the private SSH key.

Log in to the cluster and open the file

$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys

Copy the public key to the file and save the file

Run Pageant

When Pageant is running, you can see the pageant icon on the left of the tool bar

Right click on the Pageant icon. Select "Add Key"

Navigate to the folder where the keys are stored and select the private key

Enter the passphrase and click OK

The next time your loaded the saved session with SSH key configured, you can log in without typing the password or the passphrase