In order to get an account on babel.colorado.edu or verbs.colorado.edu, you must first obtain a username and password through the department. Please contact your professor for assistance.
Logging with a plaintext terminal:
On any Unix-Based Machine (or Windows machine with a terminal program), enter:
$ ssh
yourusername@babel.colorado.edu or ssh yourusername@verbs.colorado.eduYou will be prompted for your password. Enter it, press enter, and you'll be logged in to your Home (~) folder.
Logout by typing exit at the command prompt
To use X11 apps (like Xterm, emacs and xkwik) on the server from an Apple computer:
1) Check to see if X11 is installed at /Applications/Utilities/X11. If so, skip to step 4
2) If you don't have X11, go to Apple's X11 Download page and Click "Download"
3) Run the X11 Installer on your machine. The X11 Application will be installed in /Applications/Utilities
4) Run X11. A single terminal window will pop up on your screen.
5) To log in, enter:
$ ssh -Y
yourusername@babel.colorado.edu or shh -Y yourusername@verbs.colorado.edu6) Proceed as normal. Running any X11 applications will cause a new window to be created. To keep your original terminal window usable, make sure and put an "&" after the command ( $ emacs & )
7) Logout by typing exit at the command prompt