Here are steps to log into Talapas from a remote computer (e.g., your personal workstation).
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You can also use this host alias, which will resolve arbitrarily to one of the hosts above (via round-robin DNS).
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Your username on Talapas will be your Duck ID. (That is, if your email address is alice@uoregon.edu, your Talapas username will be "alice".) Your password is the same University-wide and can be managed at the UO password reset page.
Connecting via SSH
The SSH protocol is used for all shell connections to the login nodes. Multiple SSH are clients available–you can use whichever one you find most convenient.
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