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1. Confirm that you have a SLAC unix account.
2. Using any terminal client ssh username@centos7.slac.stanford.edu   and then ssh mcclogin .
3. Generate your SSH key ssh-keygen -t rsa   and hit enter 3 times.
4. Email Ken Brobeck brobeck@slac.stanford.edu and provide your unix username and the information that your key was generated on mcclogin. CC Spencer Gessner sgess@slacIvan Rajkovic rajkovic@slac.stanford.edu ..
5. IMPORTANT: don't run 'ssh-keygen' after this or you will overwrite your keys and lose access!

How to log on to facet-srv01 and access facethome remotely

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1. Launch a gnome desktop session.
2. Open a terminal.
3. >>ssh mcclogin 
4. >>ssh fphysics@facet-srv01 
5. Select your profile.
6. >>facethome

If you don't care about profiles and would like to skip profile selection, use this command in step 4:

ssh fphysics@facet-srv01 -t /bin/bash

if you get asked for a password after step 4, you either don't have working ssh keys (see previous paragraph), or you don't have access to the AFS filesystem. If In the later latter case, check the output of:

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if it is empty, run:

kinit && aklog

and confirm that klist output now contains your token(s).

For more info, check https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/SSH

Some useful commands

If you have passwordless ssh set up, this is pretty easy to use. They let you do some basic things on facet-srv01 without having to go through all these login steps

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