What is ssh?

Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over unsecure channels. It is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp, but also replaces telnet.

Additionally, ssh provides secure X connections and secure forwarding of arbitrary TCP connections.

 Linux / UNIX Commands

For a basic introduction to linux / UNIX take a look at this  linux_introduction.pdf

Listing files and directories

Name: ls

Description: You can use the ls command to list the files in a directory.

Syntax: 

Welcome to the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University!

The following information will be helpful in setting up your ASU accounts and gaining acess to several other applications and services.

ASURITE Activation

ASU will send an email to the address you used to create your account on the ASU HR new applicant website. Use the activation code provided in the email to activate ASURITE authentication.

The school has a number of Linux workstations that may be used by faculty and students for teaching and research only! All machines are networked and can be accessed through ssh, sftp, browsers, etc., from anywhere on the Internet. The school has  dedicated Linux servers "math" for use by faculty & staff and  "mathpost" for use by graduate students only. Both servers can be used as web or compute servers. Other servers or small linux clusters are available for scientific computing. All major applications are installed on these servers.

The following is a list of some of the school's important servers:

Linux Systems

Name

Use

Memory

CPU Speed

Threads

zuse

Introduction

The school offers faculty and students the possibility of creating their own web page on "math" and "mathpost" server respectively. Below is a basic introduction to get you started on creating an homepage on these servers. Using HTML (the "hypertext markup language") to create web pages is beyond the scope of this document, but many good sources of information are available on the web. So just to get you started we would recommend you to build your web page using seamonkey. Attached SoMSS template is editable through seamonkey.