You can use a terminal emulator like SecureCRT to gain shell access for reading your facstaff.sas account email and for editing personal webpages. To do so, you must first obtain a shell account at the Facstaff.SAS Account Config page.

Note: If you were migrated from mail.sas and already had a webpage, a shell account was created for you when your webpage was migrated. You do not need to request one.

You also need to use one of the currently supported Terminal Emulation programs available from Information System and Computing's (ISC) Download Site and the PennConnect CD such as the current versions of Secure CRT or HostExplorer for Windows, or dataComet Secure for the Mac OS.

Once you have a shell account, use your SSH2-capable terminal program to log into web‑facstaff.sas.upenn.edu (hostname) using the SSH2 protocol and your facstaff.sas username and password. From there you can access your SAS website and use mutt to read your email.

When the installers provided by ISC are used, the programs are preconfigured with profiles which can be used to securely access mail.sas. You will need to set up a new profile for access to facstaff.sas.

If you need any assistance with this, please contact your LSP.