2.8) Access From Mac OS X

An SSH client is packaged with Mac OS X. This is normally accessible from the Terminal application, which is located in “Utilities” in the “Applications” folder, on your Mac. Since Mac OS X is based on BSD UNIX, usage from the "terminal" is almost identical to access from other Linux/Unix systems.

If not installed by default, you can download and install the X11 application, XQuartz from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/.

To access ARC2, launch your terminal application and at the command prompt issue:

$ ssh –Y <username>@arc2.leeds.ac.uk

Where <username> is your username on ARC2. You should be prompted for your password. The optional –Y option, will switch on X11 forwarding. This means that provided your local display is set correctly, you can launch graphical applications on ARC2 and have the graphics forwarded to your local display.

On the successful execution of the above command you should now be connected to a login node on ARC2. You should notice that your shell prompt would have changed to something like:

[username@login2.arc2 ~]$

To log off simply issue the command:

$ exit