Stony Brook Computer Science Department Undergraduate Computing Laboratory

Important! As of July 29, 2001, remote access to the UG Lab is by SSH (Secure Shell) only. In particular, Telnet, FTP, and rsh/rlogin may no longer be used for incoming connections. These old tools are no longer appropriate in todays hostile Internet environment, as they have weak authentication and/or send passwords in unencrypted form over the public network. Linux and other free Unix users will already have SSH installed as a standard component on their systems. A good free SSH client for Windows is PuTTY, which can be downloaded from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. Please read the documentation accessible from that link. The Cygwin environment for Windows also has a fully compatible suite of SSH tools as standard components. Another SSH client for Windows can be downloaded from USB DoIT Software Distribution.

A complete upgrade of the workstations in Room 2128 was finished during the first week of the Fall 2001 semester. See here for details.

Every Lab user should read this to answer most questions about the Lab and how to use it.

• About the CS Department Undergraduate Computing Laboratory.
• Names of the workstations and servers available to users.
• Access policies for the Laboratory.
• Request an account for the Laboratory.
• Hints for newcomers.
• What's new in the Laboratory.
• Faculty home pages.
• Course home pages.
• Users home pages.
• How to publish your home page on this server.
• No smoking is permitted in the Laboratory.
• No food is permitted in the Laboratory.
• HOT SEX!
• CS Department main Web server.
• SUNY at Stony Brook campus Web server.