Downloading a Secure Shell Client to Your Desktop

Windows

1. Point your browser to the PuTTY download page:
    
   http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
    
   
2. On the "Download PuTTY" page, in the section titled "Alternative Binary Files," under "putty.exe (the SSH and Telnet client itself)", right click on the second link
    
   putty.exe
    
   (the 64-bit version), and from the menu select
    
   Save Link As
    
   (or similar).
    
   
3. Save   putty.exe   to your Windows desktop (or wherever).

Now you can run PuTTY just by double clicking on the PuTTY icon. To configure and start using PuTTY, use the instructions as described in Step I.1(a)x of the Programming Project #1 specification.

MacOS

For MacOS, you don't need PuTTY and can't use it, because PuTTY is only available for Windows. However, you can use ssh from the Unix command line, by starting up a Unix Terminal window.

1. Here's a link that describes how to open a Terminal window in MacOS:
    
   https://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Terminal-Window-in-Mac
    
   Please note that procedures can change with newer versions of MacOS, so we CAN'T GUARANTEE that these instructions are correct on the version of MacOS that you're running on your MacOS PC.
    
2. Once you get a Terminal window, you'll get a Unix prompt. At the Unix prompt, type

   ssh  yourusername@machinename
   

   and press the Enter key.
    
   In the case of CS1313, REPLACE yourusername with your OU4+4, and machinename with ssh.ou.edu.
    
3. You may be asked a yes/no question, in which case type:
    
   yes
    
   and press the Enter key.
    
   
4. You'll then be prompted for your password. For ssh.ou.edu, your password is your OU4+4 password, so type it and press the Enter key. NOTHING WILL APPEAR AS YOU TYPE YOUR PASSWORD. This is normal for Unix.
    
   
5. You may need to resize the terminal window to EXACTLY 80 columns wide by EXACTLY 40 rows high, and to set the font to a fixed width font such as Courier New.

Unix/Linux