User Information
From CSWiki
NOTE: This page is in the process of being rewritten and restructured. Navigation may be sub-optimal until this process is complete.
[edit]
Accessing the CS System
Your primary mode of access to the CS System will be via Secure Shell (SSH). SSH Hosts describes all hosts available to users and how to use SSH.
[edit]
Changing Your Password
- Log in, as described above.
- From the command prompt, run the 'kpasswd' command (without the quotes).
- You will be prompted for your current password, and then your new password twice.
- Password changes are effective immediately. You will need to update any stored passwords in Putty, SFTP clients, or other software.
[edit]
Accessing Oracle
- Oracle can only be accessed from machines csa01 - csa04
- Use the sqlplus command to login
- sqlplus
- You will be prompted for your oracle pasword
[edit]
SCP/SFTP (File Transfer)
- SCP is a secure and fast way to transfer files between the department server and your home computer.
- To put a file onto your home directory, from your desktop, type "scp /path/to/file.ext username@css02.cs.wmich.edu:~/file.ext". When prompted, enter your password, and the file you defined is now on your home directory.
- If you want to retrieve a file using scp, you use the same syntax, but reversed. So for the same file, but going in the other direction, the syntax would be "scp username@css02.cs.wmich.edu:~/file.ext /path/where/you/want/the/file.ext"
- Two popular clients for SFTP are WinSCP and Filezilla If you are running linux, scp is most-likely already built into your operating system, and is easy to use while not requiring that you depend on a GUI.
[edit]
Personal Web Pages
- Create a directory called www ("mkdir ~/www") in your home directory. All files in that directory with global read permissions will be displayed on http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~youruserID (e.g. http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~sysadmin)
[edit]
Secure Web access
- Place a .htaccess file in the www directory
[edit]
Microsoft MSDNAA ELMS
- Students and Faculty can log in to the MSDNAA ELMS website at http://msdn02.e-academy.com/wmich_cs
- Your ID is your ENTIRE Bronco email address (buster.bronco@wmich.edu)
- Your ELMS password will have been emailed to your Bronco email upon account creation
- A list of the software available to you can be found on the scst website, here.
- After logging in for the first time, users should immediately change their password
- Click the My Profile link at the top left of the page
- Click the Change Password option in the list presented
- To view software available on the system:
- Click the Software button at the top of the page on the left side
- Click on or search for the title you are interested in
- You will have two possible delivery options:
- Download
- Allows for direct download of the software to your computer. Select radio button and add to cart
- During checkout process, follow directions to use the download client software.
- NOTE: If the download app does not have a recognized file type, change it's file extension to .exe
- CD Creation
- Student Computer Support Team (SCST) team member will burn CDs for you. Select and add to cart
- NOTE: You will need to bring blank CDs for use in burning the software. We DO NOT provide CDs unless specifically stated otherwise (Vista, Windows7,WinServ2008 require DVD).
[edit]
Server Certificates
- The CS Deptartment uses CACert.org certificates. You will need to import their root certificate from CACert.org.
Windows users should download the PEM file (Right-click, Save As...), and then Right-click on the downloaded file, and select Install Certificate.
- CS Department Root CA Certificate CS Cert
Follow the same procedure as above to install this certificate on your machine.
[edit]
Samba Share Access
- Faculty and Staff with Samba accounts may access their home directories via a mapped network drive in windows using the samba server.
- The server's address is samba.cs.wmich.edu\username (where username is your CS account username)
- To map a network drive from windows, do the following:
- Either right-click on My Computer, or select the Tools menu from within the My Computer window
- Select Map Network Drive...
- In the Drive field, select the local drive letter you would like the network drive mapped to
- In the Folder field, enter \\samba.cs.wmich.edu\username (where username is your CS account username)
- The checkbox for Reconnect at Login will determine if this drive will be re-mapped after a reboot
- Click the Finish button
- Windows will pause for a moment while it connects to the samba server
- You will be prompted for your username and password. Use your CS username, and the samba password you have set. Your CS password and samba passwords are not synchronized, and may be different! Please use the password you provided when setting up your samba account.
- Windows will now finish mapping the drive. You now have access to your home directory.
[edit]
Samba Share Access on a Windows Machine
Double Click on My Computers
In the Tools menu at the top of the window, click 'Map Network Drive'
Select the drive letter you wish to mount the drive to
In the folder box, type \\samba.cs.wmich.edu\"Your username here"
Enter your username and password to authenticate to your folder.
[edit]
How to get an SVN Repository
- To get svn access send an email to cs-sysadmin with the following information
- Your CS username
- CS usernames of anyone else who will need access
- Project Name (No spaces in name)
- After the repository is created each user will receive an email with their password for the repository.
- You can change you svn password by going to the following page
[edit]
Accessing SVN
[edit]
SVN can be access via a web interfaces at:
- https://www.cs.wmich.edu/svn/YourProjectName
- https://www.cs.wmich.edu/websvn
- You will be prompted for your username and password
[edit]
SVN command line access
- To Check out files
- svn co --username CSusername https://www.cs.wmich.edu/svn/YourProjectName
- (The username only needs to be specified the first time you check out the Project. SVN saves the encrypted username and password to disk)
- To check out files to a different directory
- svn co CSusername https://www.cs.wmich.edu/svn/YourProjectName DirectoryName
- To commit files
- svn commit -m "reason for commit"
- (should be done from the project directory)
[edit]
Further Information
[edit]
SVN Software
[edit]
Windows
[edit]
Linux
[edit]
Debian/Ubuntu
- apt-get install subversion
[edit]
Fedora
- yum install subversion
[edit]
OS X
- SVN is shipped with OSX 10.5 Leopard
[edit]
Further Assistance
- Man Pages are a great place to start if you need help with something. If you are stuck on something, you can visit C-208 between the hours of 9AM and 5PM. The staff in C-208 should be able to help you with most things, including MSDN access, linux and programming help, and CS account support. If they aren't able to help, you are more than welcome to visit the sysadmin office, on the left side of C-218.
