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Getting Access to EARS

Access to the EARS cluster is filtered by a bastion host. We figured the easiest way to provide secure access to users was to use SSH as a proxy from a bastion host.

First, create a SSH key pair and email the public key, as an attachment, to us. Also let us know what your preferred username is.
Once you get word that your account has been created, please try to SSH to egate.deterlab.net The -D 1080 will open a SOCKS proxy port on your local machine.

$ ssh jjh@egate.deterlab.net -D 1080
Last login: Thu Jul 18 16:40:33 2013 from pod.isi.edu
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 (EGATE) #2: Fri Jun  7 17:48:53 PDT 2013

Welcome to FreeBSD!


Handy bash(1) prompt:  PS1="\u@\h \w \!$ "
		-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
[jjh@egate ~]$

You can now configure your browser to use the SOCKS port. We recommend using Firefox with the FoxyProxy Standard extension.

Once the FoxyProxy Standard plugin is installed, you can go to Tools -> FoxyProxy -> Options

Click the "Add New Proxy" button on the right.

Under the proxy Details tab, fill in 127.0.0.1 for the Host or IP Address field, select the SOCKS proxy? check box, and select SOCKS v5

Now click the URL Patterns button at the top. Add in the following pattern for EARS:

Now in the main window, make sure Select Mode: at the top is set to Use proxies based on their pre-defined patterns and priorities

Now you should be able to access the web interface of the EARS cluster.