[Tutorial] SSH for efficient remote working

[fadinammour]

What is the main topic of this tutorial: ssh, ssh keys, .ssh/config

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[Please describe here what you would hope to learn/teach] Learn basic ssh commands, how to configure the ssh profile, generate and use ssh keys for remote machines and git repositories.

Level

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Learning goals

• Understand basic SSH commands and concepts (keys, config file, gateway, port forwarding, ...)
• Generate SSH keys
• Connect to a remote machine using a key
• Perform port forwarding (and eventually open a Jupyter notebook)
• Clone a git repository using a key

[jfrontera]

It would be nice to learn some tricks to connect to Jean Zay

[tobias-liaudat]

Indeed.

@jfrontera you managed to get access to Jean Zay?

[jfrontera]

@tobias-liaudat I am unsuccessfully working on it... At least I have an account

[JCGoran]

Hello! Fellow cosmologist here, I just randomly stumbled onto this issue. I made a tutorial for working with remotes a while back, targeted at cosmologists (and scientists in general) working with HPCs (primarily the clusters available at Uni Genève), which covers SSH, SSHFS, tmux, and x2go, I'm just posting in case it is of use to anyone here (I'm not affiliated with CosmoStat).

[sfarrens]

Hi @JCGoran this is really cool! Thanks very much for sharing.

Would you by chance be interested in presenting a 1h version of your tutorial (via zoom) at some point in the future? We have regular tutorial sessions at CosmoStat every Friday at 14:00 CET and would be very happy to have your input.

[JCGoran]

Hi @sfarrens! I'd be happy to, my email is goran.jelic-cizmek@unige.ch if you'd like to discuss in more detail.