Save the public key under a name of your choice. Keep it as RSA and leave the passphrase blank. In MobaXterm, click the Tools icon or menu and select MobaKeyGen. You should treat private keys as securely as you would Remote server and the “private” key is kept safely on your own workstation. The “public” key is placed within your home directory on the KeyĪuthentication works by matching two halves of an encrypted keypair. We allow passwordless ssh to frontend nodes from UVA IP addresses. Sometimes you will need to enable passwordless ssh. Mac users will need to install XQuartz in order to use graphical applications through a shell (the -Y option will permit this).

Please note that ssh will not echo your password or move your cursor as you type. You will generally need to use this format unless you set up your user account on your Mac or Linux system with your UVA ID.

Open a terminal (on OSX, the Terminal application) and type ssh -Y mst3k should be replaced by your user ID. Mac OSX and Linux users access the cluster from a terminal through OpenSSH, which are preinstalled on these operating systems.

Connecting to a Remote Hostįor Windows, MobaXterm is our recommended ssh client this package also provides an SFTP client and an X11 server in one bundle. The secure shell ssh is the primary application used to access Rivanna from the command line.

Moba ssh