Teaching and/or General Environment
TEACHING (formerly named CS-TEACHING)
The TEACHING Computing Environment is a collection of hosts meant to support the computing requirements of CS courses.
Before you attempt to login, please setup your TEACHING password HERE (this is different from your WatIAM password).
For Mac and Linux users, you can connect to this environment using the following command in your Terminal application:
ssh -Y user_id@linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca
Use the same credentials you setup above.
For Windows users, you can connect using a software application called PuTTY.
Once you launch PuTTY, enter the Host Name (or IP Address) as:
linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca
None of the other settings need to be changed, so click Open and use your login credentials that you setup above.
GENERAL
The CSCF General Computing Environment (GENERAL) is a collection of machines meant to support general-purpose computing. Essentially, this means anything except for specialized research computing and coursework-related student computing.
Before you attempt to login, please setup your GENERAL password HERE (this is different from your WatIAM password) or at the CSCF help desk.
For Mac and Linux users, you can connect to this environment using the following command in your Terminal application:
ssh -Y user_id@linux.cs.uwaterloo.ca
Use the login credentials you setup at the help desk.
For Windows users, you can connect using a software application called PuTTY.
Once you launch PuTTY, enter the Host Name (or IP Address) as:
None of the other settings need to be changed, so click Open and use your login credentials that you setup at the help desk.