SSH - A Secure Command-Line Shell to your Linux account

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To connect to your Linux account from outside the School of Computing, you have to SSH to the student server
student.computing.dcu.ie

Please Note! - Access to this machine is by request only if you are not a MSSF or MSE (these students automatically get access). To get access, just send a request to

PuTTY is a SSH client for Windows. You can download it for free.

If you want to copy files to/from your Linux account from Windows, you may find WinSCP useful.

PuTTY is started as shown: