Shell accounts on foo

All NemoMembers get a shell account on the FooServer^?, which you can use to read email, learn Unix or manage your websites (although the latter is more easily done using ftp).

SSH

To login you need a terminal emulator that supports the SSH (SecureShell) protocol. This is included in all Linux and FreeBSD distributions. For Windows we suggest using one of the following software packages:

CygWin

a large (100MB) port of most GNU tools to Windows

F-Secure

ssh client from Data-Fellows

PuTTY

a very small ssh client (with a complementary scp program)

A more complete listing of SSH clients can be found on Yahoo:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Communications_and_Networking/Software/Unix_Utilities/Ssh__Secure_Shell_/

Unix

After login you'll get a command line from the Unix shell. If you know nothing of Unix you're likely to feel quite lost (veteran users may skip the rest of this topic).

Here's a summary of a few useful Unix commands:

ls

list files (ls -l for long format)

cd

change directory (just cd will take you to your home directory)

mv

move/rename a file

passwd

change password

joe

an editor with WordStar-line command keys

man

manual pages for most commands

A few short tutorials on Unix that may be of help:

• http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
• http://web.cs.mun.ca/unixtut/demo.html
• http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/Documentation/Tutorials/

-- GeirAalberg - 23 Feb 2002