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Remote access via Duo

In addition to other forms of remote access, CS Techstaff provides multifactor SSH access to non-forward-facing hosts through the following pair of bastion (jump) hosts.

  • bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu
  • bastion2.cs.uchicago.edu

In order to access CS systems, a CS account is required. In order to access a host that is not directly connected to the Internet via one of the bastion hosts, you may do the following, typing in your CnetID account password at the prompt.

amcguire@Andrews-MacBook-Pro ~ % ssh -J bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu linux1.cs.uchicago.edu
(amcguire@bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu) Password: 
(amcguire@bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu) Duo two-factor login for amcguire

Enter a passcode or select one of the following options:

 1. Duo Push to XXX-XXX-YYYY
 2. Phone call to XXX-XXX-YYYY
 3. SMS passcodes to XXX-XXX-YYYY

Passcode or option (1-3): 1
Success. Logging you in...
Last login: Thu Aug 28 17:21:05 2025 from 128.135.24.34
amcguire@focal1:~$ 

In the preceding, please observe that YYYY should be the last four digits of your telephone number that's been enrolled with Duo, while the -J option is used to specify that bastion1 is the proxy jump host used to "jump" to linux1. A similar result may be obtained via an entry in ~/.ssh/config such as the following.

amcguire@Andrews-MacBook-Pro ~ % cat .ssh/config 
Host linux1
  HostName linux1.cs.uchicago.edu
  ProxyJump bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu

So that then all that needs to be done is

aamcguire@Andrews-MacBook-Pro ~ % ssh linux1
(amcguire@bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu) Password: 
(amcguire@bastion1.cs.uchicago.edu) Duo two-factor login for amcguire

Enter a passcode or select one of the following options:

 1. Duo Push to XXX-XXX-YYYY
 2. Phone call to XXX-XXX-YYYY
 3. SMS passcodes to XXX-XXX-YYYY

Passcode or option (1-3):

eliminating the need for the -J option.

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