Accessing the Orion system via Secure Shell
"Secure Shell (SSH) 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."
-- "What is Secure Shell?" from the Secure Shell Frequently Asked Questions
Secure Shell provides a secure method of accessing the Orion system for such tasks as changing Orion account passwords (via the passwd), accessing email (via Pine), modifying web pages, etc. To take advantage of the Secure Shell encrypted access to Orion, you will need a SSH aware client software installed on your commputer. Flavors of this software are available for several different platforms. Feel free to try any of the ones below:
Client software on Loyola computers (labs/faculty desktop/etc):
- NT: Click Start -> Loyola Software -> Internet Tools -> SSH
Telnet Client
- XP: Click Start -> All Programs -> Loyola Software -> Internet
Tools -> SSH Telnet Client
- Click on "Quick Connect"
- Host Name should be "orion.it.luc.edu"
- User Name should be your username
- Port Number should be "22"
- Authentication Method should be "Password"
- Click "Connect"
- Provide password when prompted and click "OK"
For Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP:
For MacOS X: Fugu
For MacOS v7.5.1 or higher: MacSSH
For Java enabled web browsers:
For POSIX/Unix-like operating systems: OpenSSH
Important Notice on Strong Encryption: The programs above contain encryption code which is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain countries or to persons or entities prohibited from receiving U.S. exports. The source code and resulting applictions for the packages made available for download directly from this site (PuTTY, MacSSH, WeirdMind and MindTerm) are not subject to any express agreement for payment of a licensing fee or royalty for the commerical production or sale of any product developed with the source code. As such, they may be exported under Export Administration Regulations Section 740.13(e) without review under License Exception TSU. Also, some of these applications (MacSSH, WeirdMind and MindTerm) are covered by the General Public License (GPL) or Lessor General Public License (LGPL) which requires the source code be made equally available for download. For more information see the source code availablity web page.
http://orion.luc.edu/
revised Jan 2003 by
admin@orion.luc.edu