If you can't find what you're looking for on this page, be sure to check the Keck HOW-TOs before e-mailing keck-help@keck2.ucsd.edu.

Please see this page. The accounts are distributed by kerberos, so an account on one machine will work on all machines.

The only way to remotely login to the Keck workstations is to use secure shell (ssh).

Please note that direct ssh logins to Keck Center computers are allowed only from a local Urey Hall network subnet or the UCSD VPN.

Outgoing email only.

If you are logged into one of the Keck workstations execute command passwd to change your password.

See the available software page for a list of the software that is currently installed and some links to the software home pages.

If it's free software, just e-mail keck-help@keck2.ucsd.edu and let us know what you need and we'll try to get it installed.

Every user has 10GB home directory quota.

If your project temporarily requires bigger disk space allocation please email keck-help with a request to increase your quota,

All KeckII workstations are on publicly non-routable vlan and are not accessible from outside of UCSD. To copy your files you have to use the gateway server balboa.ucsd.edu. All your files should be visible on balboa.ucsd.edu so you can copy it from/to there.

You can also set up a tunnel if you need to do a more complex operation:

ssh -o 'ProxyCommand ssh balboa.ucsd.edu -W %h:%p' tg80XXXX@stampede.tacc.utexas.edu

and to use scp to transfer files to outside of UCSD:

scp -o 'ProxyCommand ssh balboa.ucsd.edu -W %h:%p' your_file tg80XXXX@stampede.tacc.utexas.edu:

If you use these commands often you might want to put the ProxyCommand option to your .ssh/config file:

# set up proxy to access stampede (outside UCSD)
Host stampede
 Hostname stampede.tacc.utexas.edu
 User tg80XXXX
 ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p balboa.ucsd.edu
 Ciphers arcfour
 ClearAllForwardings yes