[olug] Shell accounts? [OT?]

[David Walker (OLUG)]

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are places that give you more than a shell, a free virtual machine.
>
> https://www.clearvm.com/#clearvm-pricing    sounds like free hardware in
> the cloud.
> https://c9.io/pricing
> https://cloud.google.com/free/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sounds interesting, but I wonder how well that would work over your
> > typical hotel WiFi connection where they restrict which ports can get
> out.
> >
> >
> > On 09/14/2017 12:53 PM, Jon Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> Ben,
> >>
> >> Have you looked at Port knocking for your home firewall?
> >> https://n0where.net/ssh-port-knocking/
> >>
> >> Jon L.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/13/2017 10:26 PM, Herb Wolfe wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know of any providers of shell accounts? I'd prefer local
> or
> >>>> free. I've been using Internet Nebraska for some 20-odd years, and
> they
> >>>> are
> >>>> going to drop shell access soon. Web hosting is a bonus, as they've
> also
> >>>> changed their setup for that as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, that made me sad.  My shell account at falcon.inetnebr.com is
> my
> >>> longest-standing Unix shell account, at 23 years.  I created the second
> >>> login account on that machine in June 1994.  I'm sad to see it go.  I
> can
> >>> understand why IN is making that change, though.  We live in a
> different
> >>> world now than we did back thenk.
> >>>
> >>> I can live with losing direct vi access to my main web site's HTML
> files,
> >>> because I've been slowly converting that web site over to Wordpress
> for a
> >>> while now (it's big), and I run a web server on my home machine for
> those
> >>> one-off instances when I need to temporarily serve something without
> >>> Wordpress.
> >>>
> >>> The biggest bummer, nostalgia aside, is SSH access.  In order to keep
> the
> >>> log file noise to a minimum, my home firewall restricts which IP blocks
> >>> are
> >>> allowed to SSH into my home computer.  On the rare occasion when I need
> >>> to
> >>> SSH in from an unapproved network, I was always able to SSH into falcon
> >>> first, then jump from there to my home machine.  That route is no
> longer
> >>> an
> >>> option, so I'll probably have to open up the firewall again.  Or maybe
> I
> >>> can just paint with a bigger brush & block foreign IP's using that list
> >>> that somebody posted recently.
> >>>
> >>> It was also handy to use my shell account on falcon to get a second
> >>> opinion when I was seeing odd network behavior from home.  That'll be
> >>> annoying to lose, too.
> >>>
> >>> I'll have to check out freeshell.org and sdf.org.
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > *Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth* obiwan at jedi.com <mailto:obiwan at jedi.com>
> > www.Jedi.com <http://www.jedi.com>
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