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Alternatively you can have simple terminal access in a web browser.
Downloading tsh
The tsh application is required to perform user authentication once every 12 hours.
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OpenSSH 7.3 or later has a simple command line option to connect via our gateway (shell.ecmwf.int) to the destination-host:
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Host ecgate
User ab0
ProxyJump ab0@shell.ecmwf.int |
See the Legacy Configuration note below if your ssh client is older than 7.3.
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- Linux VDI (both legacy OpenSUSE and CENTOS production CentOS 8 beta)
- Physical office workstations
To access any other host, the ProxyJump feature allows chaining by using a comma, like so: | Code Block |
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| ssh -J ab0@shell.ecmwf.int,ab0@ecgate ab0@lxc |
You can also set password-less login, as below.
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Browse to http://webshell.ecmwf.int/destination-host/username (replacing destination-host and username with your selection).
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Alternatively, you can use:
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| title | MobaXterm SSH from Windows 10 (ECMWF laptop) |
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- Install MobaXterm if it is not already on your system
- Download tsh (you may need to instruct antivirus software to ignore the file)
- Start MobaXterm
- Login using tsh (you will always need to specify the --proxy setting)
- Use the following in
$HOME/.ssh/config (MobaXterm's home):
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| Host ecgate
User ab0
ProxyCommand ssh -q -i c:/users/ab0/.tsh/keys/shell.ecmwf.int/firstname.lastname@ecmwf.int -W %h:%p ab0@shell.ecmwf.int
IdentityFile c:/users/ab0/.tsh/keys/shell.ecmwf.int/firstname.lastname@ecmwf.int |
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| title | Native SSH from Windows 10 (own machine) |
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- Start the Windows SSH Agent Service
- Download tsh (you may need to instruct antivirus software to ignore the file)
- Login using tsh (you will always need to specify the --proxy setting)
- Use an SSH config as below:
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| # Windows currently has a bug, you need the full path to ssh or you will get:
# posix_spawn: No such file or directory
Host *.ecmwf.int
User ab0
ProxyCommand C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe -q -W %h:%p ab0@shell.ecmwf.int
# this assumes the SSH Agent is running, otherwise add:
# Host shell.ecmwf.int
# IdentityFile ~/.tsh/keys/shell.ecmwf.int/firstname.lastname@ecmwf.int
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The Windows 10 Terminal is a decent tabbed command line interface (albeit with no X11 support). | Expand |
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| title | New sessions can be configured following this example |
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| {
"guid": "{717406b0-06cb-454c-a0c4-875267fa373d}", # run "[guid]::NewGuid()" in a PowerShell to generate this
"name": "ecGate",
"commandline": "ssh ab0@ecgate.ecmwf.int"
"suppressApplicationTitle": true,
"hidden": false,
"fontSize": 10,
"fontFace": "Fira Code",
"cursorShape": "filledBox",
"cursorColor": "#073642",
"colorScheme": "Solarized Dark",
}, |
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