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Using your GLUE Account From WAM
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Steps to follow

Determine the user's home directory

In order to access a Glue home directory using a WAM Unix client, the path to the user's Glue home directory must be known and must begin with /afs/glue.umd.edu. To determine such information, login to a Glue dialup machine (e.g. glue.dialup.umd.edu) and issue the gpwd command. For example, if one's Glue login name is whatever, one would see something similar to the following after first telneting to and logging into glue.dialup.umd.edu,: 

         z:~: gpwd
         /afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/w/h/whatever/home
         z:~:

The output of the gpwd command describes the path to Glue home directory. If the home directory path does not start with /afs/glue.umd.edu, it CANNOT be accessed from WAM.

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Use the klog command

Once the path to one's Glue home directory has been determined, the next step after logging into a WAM machine is for the user to authenticate to the Glue afs cell using the klog command. (This must be done each time a Glue session is initiated from a WAM client.) Using the whatever user-name example from above: 

        rac1:~: klog whatever@glue.umd.edu
        Password:
        rac1:~:
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Change to the glue home directory

After the user's Glue password has been accepted and the user's identity has been authenticated, he/she will be able to change to the Glue home directory (using the cd command) and have full access to his/her Glue files. 

        rac1:~: cd /afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/w/h/whatever/home
        rac1:/afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/w/h/whatever/home: ls
        Mail     welcome
        rac1:/afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/w/h/whatever/home:
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Tip: Make a link to glue

To make the process simpler, the user may create a link in his/her WAM home directory that points to the Glue home directory (call the link glue, for example). Then, after being authenticated, the user may simply cd to 'glue', as in the following example: 

        rac1:~: ln -s  /afs/glue.umd.edu/home/glue/w/h/whatever/home glue
        rac1:~: cd glue
        rac1:~/glue:
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Finish up by using unlog

Once finished with the Glue files, the user should un-authenticate from the Glue cell using the 'unlog' command., This will make the Glue files inaccessible, and will leave the user in the WAM environment: 

        rac1:~: unlog glue.umd.edu
        rac1:~:
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More help is available...

Questions should be directed to the First-Aiders attending the WAM labs or the aITs Help Desk (CSS West Wing room 1400) at 301-405-1500, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Monday - Friday during the Fall and Spring semesters (9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. during semester breaks and the Summer semester). The consulting staff may also be reached via email addressed to consult@umail.umd.edu or by using the 'request' command within the Glue or WAM environments.

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