User Accounts
Requesting New Accounts
To request an account as part of a research group in ESS or Physics that owns nodes in greenplanet, email hpcops@ps.uci.edu with the PI name, name of the user, desired username (or ucinetid), and email address.
To request an account as part of the modeling facility email the modeling facility director, Nathan Crawford, at nathan.crawford@uci.edu.
Logging In
[NOTE! If you are off the UCI campus, you will likely need to use the UCI campus VPN. See www.oit.uci.edu/help/vpn/ for details.]
Logging In
To log in to greenplanet, ssh to gplogin3.ps.uci.edu. If you are part of the ATLAS group, you should use gpatlas1.ps.uci.edu.
Example, from a terminal window:
ssh -Y username@gplogin2.ps.uci.eduX11 (For graphical programs)
It will also help to have an X11 service running on your local computer. See here for how to get that installed.
X2Go (For remote desktop)
Session types "XFCE" and "MATE" are supported.
Changing Your Password
To change your greenplanet password, either initially or later on, type passwd on a login node. This is a wrapper script which will in turn ssh to to the headnode and run the passwd command there, so you will have to enter your old password multiple times. If you get any errors when trying to set a password, it usually means you entered your old password incorrectly, or the new password is not sufficiently complicated (make it longer, and use more numbers and special symbols in this case).