Remote access to facethome and facet-srv01

How to get access facet-srv01

1. Confirm that you have a SLAC unix account.
2. Using any terminal client ssh username@iris.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@slac.stanford.edu .

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

We recommend using the fastx browser interface:

FastX

Then:

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

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

To run arbitrary commands on facet-srv01:

ssh -t USER@rhel6-64.slac.stanford.edu ssh -t USER@mcclogin ssh -t fphysics@facet-srv01 COMMAND

(Replace USER and COMMAND)

To transfer files from facet-srv01 to your local machine (leaves a copy on RHEL):

ssh -t USER@rhel6-64.slac.stanford.edu -t ssh USER@mcclogin “scp fphysics@facet-srv01:PATHTOFILE ~/transferStaging”; rsync -rP USER@$rhel6-64.slac.stanford.edu:~/transferStaging ~/transfer

(Replace USER and PATHTOFILE, mkdir ~/transferStaging on RHEL and mkdir ~/transfer on your local machine first)

You can also set these up as BASH functions in your .zshrc (or whatever)