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Logging into CSCS Machines For UM Students, faculty, staff and many others, your CSCS login/password is the same login/password you use for wolverine access, your itd mail, etc. If you do not have a UM (kerberos) login, please login with the temporary password you received and see below for instructions for changing your password. In any case, the details of getting connected vary depending on the kind of machine/operating system you are using. Typical examples are given below. For more details on getting connected to CSCS machines, please read these pages. If you are using a computer in the CSCS Lab, which run linux (redhat or ubuntu),
enter your login and password as prompted on the computer screen.
Remember -- there are often user's logged in remotely or running long jobs in the background on machines in the lab, so even if no one is sitting at a machine, it very likely is in use. And even if your screen is frozen, it does not mean the machine is not working. If you're logging in from a remote Linux or Mac OS X machine, start by running the console or terminal program in your application menu. Then, execute the following command, where username is your new CSCS account name:
If are logging in from a Windows machine, you can use the program putty to login to the CSCS machines. Campus Computer sites have this program installed already. (If you do not have putty on your computer, you can find out how to get it here.) For more information on running putty on Campus Computing sites, please see this page. Basically, once you have run putty, you must enter a CSCS computer name into the Hostname field. For instance, enter lastrada.cscs.lsa.umich.edu into the hostname field, then click on Open. Enter your username and password as prompted. From here, there are a number of ways to continue learning about CSCS computer resources. We ask you to first read these pages: and other pages listed on the main lab documentation page. For accounts created before 2008 January and non-UM-Guests: The first step in using your CSCS account is changing your password. In order to do so, you will first need to login to your CSCS account. You can do this by coming to the CSCS Lab during its open hours and logging into an open Linux machine there. Or you can connect to a CSCS machine from another Campus Computing site or your own computer. At this point, regardless of which operating system you are using, run the following command:
You will be prompted for your default password, then twice for your new password. Once this is completed, your account is now secure. |