How to access the cluster with PuTTY
Basic login
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Start PuTTy |
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Enter Euler hostname (euler.ethz.ch) |
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Enter your ETH account username and password |
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Upon a successful login, you can see the welcome banner and links to this Wiki, Smartdesk and cluster support |
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Saved session
Create a session
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Enter Euler hostname (euler.ethz.ch) and a session name |
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Add your username |
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Save a session |
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Load a session |
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SSH keys
Create SSH keys
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Start PuTTYgen |
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Generate SSH Keys |
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Enter a passphrase and save the public and private keys |
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Navigate to the folder you want to save the SSH keys, define the key file name and save it |
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Add the private key to a session
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Create a session or load a session. Then, go to the Auth section to add the private SSH key. |
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Copy the public key to the cluster
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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 |
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Copy the public key to the file and save the file |
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Passwordless login
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Create an SSH session or load a saved session. then, enter the passphrase to login |
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Auto login
Run Pageant |
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When Pageant is running, you can see the pageant icon on the left of the tool bar |
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Add SSH key to Pageant
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Right click on the Pageant icon. Select "Add Key" |
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Navigate to the folder where the keys are stored and select the private key |
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Enter the passphrase and click OK |
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Passwordless and passphraseless login
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The next time you load the saved session with SSH key configured, you can log in without typing the password or the passphrase |
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