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Dear Digital Diva,
I heard that the Barnard server only accepts secure protocols now, how does that affect me?
Basically, it means that since the switch to secure protocols-only,
every time you connect to the Barnard server, for email or file
transfers, you need to use secure protocols. This means that
if you use an email client to download your email via POP or
IMAP, you will need to change its security settings.
There are
detailed instructions on how to re-configure your email client
on the Resnet website.
Alternatively, if you check your email through Pine, you will
need to be sure that you use a secure shell client, and not
telnet. If you use Windows, you can download SSH Secure Shell
on eBear or PuTTY from the AcIS website. Mac users can access Pine via the OS X application Terminal,
which is already installed on your computer.
For file transfer,
all connections must now use sftp instead of ftp, so we recommend
using SSH Secure Shell or WinSCP for Windows users and Fugu
for Mac users. There are detailed instructions on how to use
these programs on the Secure Email page of the Resnet website.
You might ask why someone would use sftp for on the Barnard
server at all -- you may not know this, but Barnard offers free
web hosting to all of its students. The Barnard Eclipse server
holds not only your email, but also any files that you choose
share on the World Wide Web.
To set up your personal website,
log into the Barnard Eclipse server using one of the secure
shell clients suggested above, and type "web.setup" at the command
prompt. A folder called "public_html" is created, and has the
correct permissions so that any file you put into it will be
available at your own address, http://eclipse.barnard.columbia.edu/~BarnardUsername
For more information on setting up your own Barnard website,
visit the Academic Technologies page on personal websites.
If you do set up a website on Eclipse, just remember that you
still have a disk-usage quota of 90MB, so delete old emails
and check that you aren't over quota on eBear.