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Connecting by SSH to the Poseidon Servers

Off Campus?

If you are not on campus, you'll need to first connect to the UW-Eau Claire VPN before you can access our computing resources.

On a Windows Computer

  1. Install PuTTY

  2. Set HostName type to poseidon0.cs.uwec.edu (or substitute in 1, 2, or 3 instead of 0)

  3. Set Port to 22

  4. Select Open

  5. Enter your UWEC username in lower case and password when prompted

  6. The connection should be established

On a Mac Computer

  1. Open the Terminal app

  2. Type ssh username@poseidon0.cs.uwec.edu (substituting in your UWEC username in lower case and optionally substituting in 1, 2, or 3 instead of 0)

  3. Enter your your UWEC password when prompted

  4. The connection should be established