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Recommended Software

  • Off campus access to Rhodes via the Rhodes VPN. You should be given access to the Rhodes VPN, so you should not need to file a ticket. You will, however, need to download the Fortinet client and install/configure it.

  • A terminal emulator or SSH client for your OS of choice. Most operating systems ship with ssh already installed.

    To connect to a remote host using ssh, open the terminal/command prompt application on your computer and then type ssh username@hostname to connect to hostname as the user named username.

    As an example, I connect to lily using ssh langm@lily.rhodes.edu.

  • OSX:
    • Cyberduck is a graphical SCP (and FTP, etc.) client.
    • You can use the built in Terminal.app, but it is a terrible program.
    • iTerm2 replaces the super-crappy built-in terminal application.
  • Windows:
    • Use the built-in command prompt (enter cmd or “Command Prompt” in the Windows search box), and then you can use ssh as outlined above.
    • WinSCP is a Windows SCP program.
    • ~PuTTY is a commonly-used SSH client.~ Note: I used to recommend PuTTY, but modern versions of Windows ship with ssh).
    • mobaxterm is a SSH client recommended by a student.
    • Do you have a terminal emulator or ssh client that you prefer? Let me know!