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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by sureglymop »

hanslub42 wrote: post #29
somat wrote: post #26

I run a public unix(openbsd) shell for fun, I call it my social network platform it sort of sucks, no users, ip6 only, a bunch of vm's on an old underpowered router running in my closet. But feel free to stop by and set up a .plan if you have nothing better to do. ssh to applicant@register.public.outband.net instructions at https://www.public.outband.net note that it's ip6 only. It is pretty pointless, nobody needs o…

> nobody needs or wants a unix shell account in this day and age I do. But I do not need just any Unix shell account, I need old and weird ones! I develop and maintain a portable utility (rlwrap) that is aimed at users of older software, who are often also using older or even obsolete systems. For years, I used Polarhome ( http://www.polarhome.com/ ) as a "dinosaur zoo" of obsolete systems (thans, Zoltan!) For every…

Wow! I hope you know you are having a real impact in the world. Rlwrap has made my life easier so many times, it's in my top 3 most useful CLI tools. Thank you :)

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by TacticalCoder »

zorked wrote: post #9
seblon wrote: post #7

I found a way to escape their shell (so you can run whatever you want), if you're not verified, it involves multiple steps to archive this. I mailed them 2x to their membership address, but since today no reaction. I asked also in their IRC. Just a question to HN: should I wait more, try again? Or should I simply publish the vulnerabilities somewhere? If yes, where? It's my first time that I found a vulnerability at…

Don't publish. You already notified them, your shell escape isn't a big deal, publishing it will only be a pain for the volunteers running the service.

> your shell escape isn't a big deal

You can't have it both ways: if it's not a big deal, then he can publish it.

If you say "Don't publish", then you acknowledge that it's a big deal.

I say to GP: "Congrats for finding a shell escape, it's always a big deal. But don't publish it... Yet".

Give them a chance to fix it. But it they don't even answer to the emails, even just saying: "thx we're busy we can't fix right now but will do", then at some point you just publish.

It doesn't take long to answer an email saying "thanks, we'll fix it eventually".

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by lizknope »

asimovDev wrote: post #13

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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by assimpleaspossi »

somat wrote: post #26

I run a public unix(openbsd) shell for fun, I call it my social network platform it sort of sucks, no users, ip6 only, a bunch of vm's on an old underpowered router running in my closet. But feel free to stop by and set up a .plan if you have nothing better to do. ssh to applicant@register.public.outband.net instructions at https://www.public.outband.net note that it's ip6 only. It is pretty pointless, nobody needs o…

At least you're running something with direct and real Unix roots.

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by miggol »

From the FAQ: "What is SDF"

> While we did initially start out on a single computer in 1987, the

> SDF is now a network of 8 64bit enterprise class servers running

> NetBSD realising a combined processing power of over 21.1 GFLOPS!

Which piqued my interest about how that compares to today's computers. nVidia's venerable 1080Ti from 2017 measures about 11300 GFLOPS, or 11.3 teraFLOPS. About a fifty times increase.

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by fleeno »

kristopolous wrote: post #15

Finally got to log into a vms system! I was looking to do that over 20 years ago but never could find one. Somehow I still remembered most of the shell syntax in a book I read about it probably in 2001. Don't ask me ... I don't know how either. Got bored in about 10 minutes but still, another box checked off!

I had access to a VMS system in my BBS days, and I had no idea it wasn't just some hard to use BBS software. When it clicked that it was a real operating system on a giant machine (I believe 11/380) it changed everything for me!

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by dwedge »

bayindirh wrote: post #11
seblon wrote: post #7

I found a way to escape their shell (so you can run whatever you want), if you're not verified, it involves multiple steps to archive this. I mailed them 2x to their membership address, but since today no reaction. I asked also in their IRC. Just a question to HN: should I wait more, try again? Or should I simply publish the vulnerabilities somewhere? If yes, where? It's my first time that I found a vulnerability at…

You shall wait. It's a volunteer powered system and while the ops are silent and terse in their mails, they're nice people. Their plate is already quite full and they operate a whole universe of services, so cut them some slack. It's not an ordinary service which is exposed to internet trying to turn a profit. They run SDF, two Mastodon instances, a mail server, a Git server, trying to salvage/keep alive living compu…

I tried signing up to their mastodon three times and just never received the email accepting me. It's a shame because I wanted to be part of their community

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by bayindirh »

dwedge wrote: post #38
bayindirh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You shall wait. It's a volunteer powered system and while the ops are silent and terse in their mails, they're nice people. Their plate is already quite full and they operate a whole universe of services, so cut them some slack. It's not an ordinary service which is exposed to internet trying to turn a profit. They run SDF, two Mastodon instances, a mail server, a Git server, trying to salvage/keep alive living compu…

I tried signing up to their mastodon three times and just never received the email accepting me. It's a shame because I wanted to be part of their community

Which one? There are two instances, one for members, and one for everyone.

Re: SDF Public Access Unix System

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Post by Narishma »

miggol wrote: post #36

From the FAQ: "What is SDF" > While we did initially start out on a single computer in 1987, the > SDF is now a network of 8 64bit enterprise class servers running > NetBSD realising a combined processing power of over 21.1 GFLOPS! Which piqued my interest about how that compares to today's computers. nVidia's venerable 1080Ti from 2017 measures about 11300 GFLOPS, or 11.3 teraFLOPS. About a fifty times increase.

The original Raspberry Pi had a 24 GFLOPS GPU for comparison.
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