In response to the SSH issues from past weeks, access to GFDI computers from the outside will be changing yet again.

The change this time will be small. Here are the details:

• Web and email are uneffected. What ever has been working will continue to work.
  
  
• SSH communications from the outside will only be allowed to two machines:
  
  kira.gfdi.fsu.edu and port.gfdi.fsu.edu
  
  
• After tomorrow, kira.gfdi.fsu.edu will only accept connections directly from FSU machines. This is to allow remote users of MATLAB's graphical interface to continue as previously.
  
  
• All ssh connections from the outside world will have to come in through port.gfdi.fsu.edu
  

For example: a user who wishes to connect to Medea.gfdi.fsu.edu would have to ssh to port.gfdi.fsu.edu and then ssh from port to medea.

Future changes : One slight change which will come into effect in the next month will be handy for users who use Pine or Mutt to check their GFDI email. It is not currently implemented, but soon users will be able to run "Pine" from port.gfdi.fsu.edu and it will check their email.

The long term goal will be to allow all command line related functions ( other than compiling code or running models) to be ran from port directly.