Running VSCode with SSH via ubuntu-vlab01.seas.gwu.edu

You can use this guide to instead develop using ssh connection to ubuntu-vlab01.seas.gwu.edu (the SEAS linux server).

1. Install Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
   https://code.visualstudio.com/download

2. Install the Remote - SSH Extension

3. Install SSH on your local computer
   • Ubuntu/Debian : Comes pre-installed but if it doesn’t

     sudo apt-get install openssh-client
     

   • MacOS : Comes pre-installed
   • Windows : Install Git for Windows comes with an ssh client
4. Connect to the GW VPN
   – See this guide from GW IT for more details

   You must be connected to the GW VPN to ssh into vlab01

5. Open a new VSCode Window
   – Open the command pallet with F1 key
   – Type Remote-SSH: Connect to host and choose to connect to a new host
   – Then enter ssh gwusername@ubuntu-vlab01.seas.gwu.edu where gwusername is your NetID for GW. Like in your email gwusername@gwu.edu
   – If prompted for the operating system, select Linux (not the OS of your machine), and hit select that you want to continue when it mentions a fingerprint. This is because Linux is the OS of the remote host.
   – Hit enter, and you may be prompted for a password, enter your GW account password
   – Once your connected you should see a green bar at the bottom left saying something like SSH ubuntu-vlab01.seas.gwu.edu.

6. Continue with this guide for using vscode and git to complete your assignment

   If you’re asked to open a docker container, say no. It should work as is.

Setting up your git profile on ubuntu-vlab01

You only need to do this once, but you need to do it in order for us to grade your work

1. Once your connected to ubuntu-vlab01 via instructions above open an integrated terminal
   – Open the command pallet with F1 key
   – Type/select Terminal: Create New Terminal

2. In the terminal run the following commands

   git config --global user.name "John Doe"
   git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
   

   Where John Doe is replaced with your name and johndoe@example.com is replaced with the email address you used to sign up to github.

Extra stuff

Setting up an SSH key on ubuntu-vlab01 with github

Note you only need to do this once

1. Once your connected to ubuntu-vlab01 via instructions above open an integrated terminal
   – Open the command pallet with F1 key
   – Type/select Terminal: Create New Terminal

2. Generate a ssh-key use ssh-keygen
   – In the terminal type

      ssh-keygen
   

   – Hit enter to each of the questions
   – No, you do not need a passphrase

3. Copy your public key
   – In the terminal type

      cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub
   

   – This will print out your public key, select and copy it from thee terminal
   – Make sure you copy the whole thing beginning with ssh-rsa ending with something like username@ubuntu-vlab01

4. Go to github.com and add your SSH key
   – make sure you’re logged in
   – select your icon in the upper right
   – select settings
   – select SSH and GPG Keys from the options
   – click the green button New SSH key
   – Paste your ssh-key you copied from above in there and hit enter

5. Once you do that, you shouldn’t need a password to push/pull your repos

Retrieving files from ubuntu-vlab01 to your local machine

Note that when you work on ubuntu-vlab01 all the files are stored remotely. This is no big deal since you can always push your changes for this class to github, but you may want to also store a local copy.

1. Once your connected to ubuntu-vlab01 via instructions above open an integrated terminal
   – Open the command pallet with F1 key
   – Type/select Terminal: Create New Integrated Terminal

2. Select the explorer tab on VSCode on the left
   – Open folder
   – Select the folder you wish to load into VSCode (this can be your home folder)

3. Navigate to the file you want in the explorer within VSCode.

4. Select the file and DRAG it to your local machine desktop or another folder from your file explorer.