CS0007:  Introduction to Computer Programming

University of Pittsburgh
Fall 2003
Safe Telnetting

  It is very important that you use a secure telnet client so that your id and password are not visible to miscreants on the net.  What this means is that when you use unixs, you need to use a program capable of encrypting the data when it is transferred from where you are and where unixs is.  So, my suggestion is to use the program PuTTY.  It is small, easy, and lots of other cs7 students have used it in the past.

First, go download it.  If you are using windows, just use the first "putty.exe" link, otherwise find the one you want.  It all fits in one file, so it is probably easiest just to save it to your desktop.  

Download PuTTY

Now do the following to connect to unixs:
  1. Click on the icon (I saved it on my desktop)
  2. Fill in unixs.cis.pitt.edu in the hostname box.
  3. Click on SSH right beneath it.
  4. Click on "open" at the bottom.
  5. The first time, you'll have to confirm that it is ok to connect to that machine, but it won't ask again.
  6. Enter your unixs id & pw and you're all set.
You can choose to save the unixs settings, that way the next time you use it you'll just have to pick unixs from the list.



Last updated:  9/4/03