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.