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--- remote_access_alumni [2025/08/29 11:40] – amcguire
+++ remote_access_alumni [2025/09/16 11:24] (current) – haryadi
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-===== Remote Access for Alumni =====
+===== Remote Access for Alumni via alumni.cs =====
-CS Techstaff understands that there is an occasional need for CS alumni to access course-related data in their home directory, even after graduation. To that end, one may access the server ''alumni.cs.uchicago.edu'' in the same manner that CS department systems were previously accessed.
+CS Techstaff understands that there is an occasional need for CS alumni to access old data in their home directory, even after graduation. To that end, an alum may access the server via ssh to ''alumni.cs.uchicago.edu'' in the same manner that CS department systems were previously accessed, as in the following example.
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-The ''alumni'' system is directly connected to the Internet and so no jump server connectivity or VPN is required to access it. This system exists primarily so that an alum may access data in their old home directory, and so provides only very limited access to other tools and network services.
+The ''alumni'' system is directly connected to the Internet and so no jump server connectivity or VPN is required to access it.
+However, the alumni server provides //only very limited access// to other tools and network services.  We only expect alumni.cs users to only use our resources to access their old data in their home directory.