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As a staff or faculty member you can use this service by connecting to ssh-staff.rice.edu with your favorite ssh client. When you connect you will not get a shell, instead you will be prompted for the host you want to connect. This connection will be made using the NetID you connected to ssh-staff.
As a student member you can use this service by connecting to ssh-student.rice.edu with your favorite ssh client. When you connect you will notget a shell, instead you will be prompted for the host you want to connect. This connection will be made using the NetID you connected to ssh-staff.
When you connect using SCP or SFTP it will point to the root of your home directory on Storage.rice.edu. This Be aware that the connection is made using NFS. made via SCP or SFTP will be to your home directory via an NFS protocol.
examples of SFTP: sftp <netid>@sftp-student.rice.edu