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Polaris is a publicly available shell server hosted by OIT's Network Services. Polaris accounts are not generated automatically, and must be requested either by a professor for their class, or by an individual with a reasonable need to access the service. Pola...

Once you have accessed Polaris through SSH, you will be in a Linux Bash shell. This will not be a comprehensive guide, but instead will give a general overview of our most frequently asked questions. Linux File Permissions A good overview of Linux file permiss...

Both lin-web and People have their files hosted from Polaris. Editing the sites on Polaris is similar to Webspace. Lin-Web and People (shortened to just lin-web in this document) files all come from the same directory structure as Webspace, the ~/public_html f...