[PLUG] pdxlinux.org login accounts

[Sean Whitney]

Actually a great use (and limited bandwidth) for the public_html would be for 
resume's!

Sean

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 21:52, you wrote:
> AthlonRob <AthlonRobNF at cs.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:13, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > "John Hampton" <John.Hampton at gijoes.com> writes:
> > > > And you can also say: "Hey, that deluser thing sounds like a cool
> > > > tool!  I wonder if it works on my distro?"  And then you ask Karl:
> > > > "Hey Karl, is deluser an executable that I could recompile, or
> > > > perhpas a script that you could give me?"
> > >
> > > And if you like, I can give you a login account on
> > > "drizzle.pdxlinux.org", where you can poke around on a Debian system
> > > to find out for yourself.
> >
> > What kind of restrictions are there on such an account?
>
> Just that you mind your P's and Q's and don't expect it to be a
> supercomputer with infinite bandwidth.  No cracking, DOS or warez type
> activity, mind you don't leave heavy processes running un-niced, etc.
> If you opt to create a website in your ~/public_html directory, please
> limit it to a business card and download area type site... and if you
> think it will get slashdotted, we'd better do some advanced planning!
>
> Other than that, you will have a non-root account on a Celeron 433MHz
> with 128MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive.  The disk is managed by the EVMS
> volume manager (LVM compatible volumes) and has reiserfs filesystems.
>
> You may run "aptitude" if you like, to browse the plethora of packages
> available in the Debian trove, and you may look anywhere in the entire
> filesystem that the standard Unix user/group/permissions will allow.
> (If I accidently set bad permissions on "/etc/shadow" you can crack it
> if you like, but no fair doing more than saying "tag you're it" with
> that.  Don't sabatoge the box while you're root if you find a way in,
> in other words.)  Aptitude runs fine as a non-root user, you just
> won't be able to actually install anything.  All of the other features
> should work though.  I will install software on request provided there
> is adequate disk space.
>
> X forwarding will work with SSH, and you may run XEmacs that way if
> you like.  It would be interesting to see how many people can work on
> the web site at once that way...  Screen is installed, and the default
> shell is Zsh.  Your home directory will be fairly well populated by
> the skel copy when it is initialized; I hope you like the setup.
>
>  % xemacs /usr/sbin/{add,del}user
>
> If there's a root exploit you want to try, go ahead, but please don't
> break anything and tell us how you got in and let's get it fixed
> pronto.  Do NOT EVER use pdxlinux.org as a base of operations for
> "security scanning" anything but your own computers, please, etc. etc.
> Common sense should tell you what's ok and what's not in this regard.
>
> > I've been looking for some sort of permanent POP3/SMTP account.  It
> > looks like I'll end up setting up my own server with a dyndns (even
> > though it is a static IP) DNS setup.  I don't want to register a domain.
>
> Well, the account does come with an email address, though I'd prefer
> it be, like the people.pdxlinux.org/~loginid web page, for light use
> PLUG / LUG / Linux related activity; it'll be your "@pdxlinux.org"
> address.  You may read it there via Squirrelmail, IMAPS, or use a
> .forward file.
>
> > Ok, just ventured off-topic.  How does one go about setting up a
> > drizzle account to play around in Debian?  :-)
>
> Email "karlheg at pdxlinux.org", and send me your SSH Protocol 2
> "id_dsa.pub" or "id_rsa.pub" along with your login name, full name,
> and a daytime telephone number.  I will create the account then email
> you.  After you log in, you must "echo PASSWORD >
> ~karlheg/Drop_Box/LOGIN && chmod o-rw ~karlheg/Drop_Box/LOGIN" then
> let me know about it so I can set the password for email access.  The
> password is optional if you are going to use a .forward.