Connecting to Hippolyta

ssh

Connect to Hippolyta using ssh–the secure shell unix program.¹ Linux and OS X users can connect from the command line; Windows users will want to look into PuTTY or Cygwin, at least until Microsoft finishes incorporating ssh into PowerShell.

To access Hippolyta, connect to hippolyta.materials.cmu.edu on port 65111–you’ll need to specify this port, since it’s not the default². You’ll also need your hippolyta username and password.

Logging in from the command line as the user mullins:

ssh -p 65111 mullins@hippolyta.materials.cmu.edu

You can set up a configuration file for ssh to simplify this. Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config on the machine you’d like to use to log in to Hippolyta.

Host hippolyta hippolyta.materials.cmu.edu
   Hostname hippolyta.materials.cmu.edu
   User mullins
   Port 65111

With this set up, you can log in with simply ssh hippolyta.

Public key access

Password logins are only allowed from CMU’s campus network. If you need to log in from outside the campus network, you’ll probably want to set up public-key encrypted authentication. GitHub has a nice walkthrough–your friendly hippolyta admin team will be glad to help if you get stuck.