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Terminal Setup

First time setup

The login process can be simplified significantly with a few easy configurations.

  1. In a new local terminal run; mkdir -p ~/.ssh/sockets this will create a subdirectory in your home directory to store socket configurations.

  2. Open your ssh config file (e.g. nano ~/.ssh/config to open with the text editor nano) and add the following (replacing username with your username):

ControlPath ~/.ssh/control/%C
ControlMaster auto
Host login-0
   User <userid>@agresearch.co.nz
   Hostname 10.29.107.20
   ProxyCommand ssh -YW %h:%p login-0
   ServerAliveInterval 300
   ServerAliveCountMax 2
   ForwardX11 yes
   ForwardX11Trusted yes

ControlPath ~/.ssh/control/%C
ControlMaster auto
Host login-1
   User <userid>@agresearch.co.nz
   Hostname 10.29.107.20
   ProxyCommand ssh -YW %h:%p login-1
   ServerAliveInterval 300
   ServerAliveCountMax 2
   ForwardX11 yes
   ForwardX11Trusted yes
  1. Ensure the permissions are correct by running chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config.

Usage

Assuming you have followed the setup above you will be able to connect to the clusters directly using;

ssh login-0

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