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Lab Zero: A First Experiment Using GENI
2. Establish the Environment
2.1 Pre-work: Create a GENI account
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Figure 2-1 Logging into the GENI Experimenter Portal. |
Congratulations, you have successfully created a GENI account.
2.2 Pre-work: Project lead adds you to a project
In order to use the portal to reserve resources, you must join a project. We have created a project for this tutorial.
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2.3 Generate and Download SSH Keypair
Access to compute resources in GENI is provided through ssh key pairs and thus the portal needs a public key to upload to compute resources. For the purposes of the tutorial we will have the portal create an SSH key pair for you. (However, if you prefer to use your personal public key you can choose to upload it.)
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Figure 2-2 On the SSH Keys page, select the "generate and download an SSH keypair" button.
- Enter the same passphrase twice, then press Generate SSH private key.
Figure 2-3 Enter passphrase twice, then generate SSH private key.
- Now, press the Download Private Key button. (PuTTY users should selection Download PuTTY Key instead.)
- If you are using a command line based ssh client, open a terminal and execute:
$ mv ~/Downloads/id_geni_ssh_rsa ~/.ssh/. $ chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa $ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa
Later in the tutorial, this will allow you to log into your nodes securely without a password. (Users of GUI based ssh clients, such as PuTTY, should skip this step.)
Figure 2-4 Download an SSH Key Pair.