Staff, faculty, and student who have accounts on the EE server

This document describes the options you have to connect to the ee.stanford.edu server in a secure shell environment.

General Information

We strongly recommend that you use only secure network connections to access your account on Department servers. Many Department computers will not accept insecure connections over which your password travels unencrypted. Most Department computers accept ssh connections.

Obtaining Secure Connection Software

Note that there are two SSH protocols: SSH1 and SSH2. The client programs below may support one or both of these. Most of the systems in the Electrical Engineering Department support SSH2. (The following programs are free, or have been licensed by Stanford for use by faculty, staff and students. There are commercial implementations of SSH that can be purchased.)

Windows

• SecureCRT, an SSH client for Windows and SecureFX, a secure file transfer program.
• PuTTY, a freeware collection of SSH related programs for Windows (SSH, SCP, SFTP)
• Info about other Windows SSH programs.

Macintosh

Mac OS X comes with OpenSSH, so you don't need to download additional software in order to use SSH, SCP, or SFTP.

• |MacSFTP, a graphical secure file transfer program.
• Info about other MacOS SSH programs.

UNIX/Linux

Note that all Linux distributions, and many other UNIXes, come with OpenSSH, so you don't need to download additional software in order to use SSH, SCP, or SFTP.

• OpenSSH, (SSH1 and SSH2) for Unix based systems.

Off Campus Computer Connections

To elimate possible attacks from hackers, the EE server only accepts secure connections from computers that are on the campus networks. If you are not on a campus network and need to access the EE server from off campus, then you need to use a VPN connection.

VPN Software

• VPN, Virtual Private Network.