Getting Started with Shell

Overview

The Shell server is open to all UO students, faculty, and staff with valid Duck ID credentials. 

Users may SSH to shell.uoregon.edu or wish to access account files may use an SFTP client with sftp.uoregon.edu

Information

Logging In

The shell server is open to all UO students, faculty, and staff with valid Duck ID credentials.

Make sure that your account has Shell access turned on before attempting to log in. See How do I enable Shell access? for instructions.

For a detailed walk through of how to log in, see How to log into Shell.

Using the Server

The Shell server is intended to be used for execution of interactive applications such as PINE or other standard Red Hat Linux based software packages, and for publication of documents via web space provided to all UO affiliates via the http://pages.uoregon.edu/<username> URL scheme.

Hardware Description

The shell server is a virtual machine hosted in VMware and provides access to these resources:

• 2 virtual CPUs (equivalent to Intel Xeon 2.60GHz)
• 8 GB of RAM
• User home directories: NFS home directories with 50GB user quota (presented at /home[1-16]/<username)
• Scratch directory: NFS temporary storage directory with 250GB available (presented as /scratch)

SSH Fingerprints

You can use one of the following fingerprints to verify that you are talking to the correct server:

New keys:

On the morning of February 16th, 2021, Shell was moved to the new Red Hat 8 server. After this change you will receive errors or warnings from SSH clients about changed and new SSH host keys and you will need to delete existing keys from your clients and accept the new ones to log in. The fingerprints for the new keys are: