How to use the database server babbage.cs.abo.fi A MySQL database server for those attending this year's course is installed on the server babbage.cs.abo.fi. All the users are allowed to see all the databases there. A user has all priviledges to those databases that are called username_database. If your username is xxxx, you can create, change and drop (delete) databases calles xxxx_bank, xxxx_jobs, xxxx_courses etc. This is how you work with the system: You log on to babbage.cs.abo.fi using your normal userID and Unix-password (if you have not defined a separate password for unix, it is the same as your Windows password). You can use a communication program such as Putty och ssh Secure Shell, or just sit at one of the computers in the Linux-class (the penguin class) and use a terminal window. You get one by clicking the right mouse button and choosing Konsole. Or you can click the F-icon (lower left corner), the choose Applications, then Utilities, then Terminal. When you have this terminal window, you must use Linux-commands. You type the commands and push “enter”. Mouse-clicks do not work here. This is how you connect to babbage: ssh
[email protected] Inside Åbo Akademi, using our network, it is enought to write ssh babbage From home or elsewhere, you must access babbage from tuxedo.abo.fi. First log onto tuxedo (normal userID, normal password), then write ssh
[email protected] The computer now asks your password, and you give it the same Windows password.