Workbench is a web hosting platform at Lafayette College for faculty and staff who need to do web hosting in a traditional Unix setting.

Accounts

Workbench can only be accessed through OpenSSH Public Key Authentication. If you want a workbench account and have your SSH public key, then please contact the Help Desk to request an account.

If you need to create a public SSH key, please see Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent on GitHub Docs and select the appropriate operating system. Workbench requires the Ed25519 algorithim.

Help

For further information, including new site requests, please contact the Help Desk at (610) 330-5501 or send an email to help@lafayette.edu.