Shell Account¶

Centra has a shell service available for all permanent members and long term visitors.

You can request a shell account for the following means:

Personal use. Check Personal Shell for more details.

Calculus. Check Calculus Shell for more details.

Personal Shell¶

You need to either be a permanent or long-term visitor to be elegible to this service, check you status here.

You need to have a SSH2 Keypair in order to request a Personal Shell account.

Account sharing with fellow researchers, students, family or friends is forbidden .

It is of the sole responsibility of the user to:

Keep its file access permissions correctly set up;

Keep the account safe;

Making sure the account isn’t used for malicious activities;

The disregarding of any of the above can entitle a user to a permanent shell account ban.

This is a multi purpose shell account access that is mainly used for:

Personal Webpage Hosting

Personal File Repository/Backup

After your account is activated you can connect to it via SSH and copy files from/to using SCP:

$ ssh yourusername@gamow.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

$ scp -r some files or folders yourusername@gamow.tecnico.ulisboa.pt:

In order to setup your account, please contact us via e-mail, using the Shell Account Support Request.

Note that if you are contacting on behalf of someone, please add in the e-mail message who that person is and a contact for that person.

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