[UFO Chicago] Remote Logins Available To The Public

[Jay F Shachter]

Members of the public are welcome to login to, and experiment with,
the Dell server that was recently donated to the Shachter Computer
Labs.  So far, three different operating systems have been installed
on this fine machine: OpenSuse 11.4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
5.4, and Solaris 9.

OpenSuse 11.4 was released in March of 2011, so it is, as of this
writing, the newest Linux that you can get.  RHEL 5.4, in contrast,
was released in late 2009, but Red Hat stands behind it.  RHEL is Red
Hat's commercially supported Linux (as opposed to Fedora, which is
their community-supported Linux), which I have because I will be doing
some work for Red Hat on that platform; please note that you may not
copy my RHEL onto your own systems, pursuant to the terms of my
agreement with Red Hat.  You may freely copy anything you find in
OpenSuse 11.4.  Solaris 9 is several years old; it is being made
available only because Solaris 11 could not be installed on this
machine, apparently because Solaris 11 lacks device drivers for its
internal array of SCSI disks.  Future plans are to make Solaris 11
available to the public, as, when, and if another computer becomes
available on which to install it.  There are also plans to make Haiku
(which also appears not to be able to access a SCSI disk array)
available in the future.  Haiku is a free, open-source, operating
system that is not Unix-based (there are some others -- like Plan 9,
and the Hurd -- but they are rare), so it should be quite interesting
to look into.

If any member of the public wishes to login remotely to the OpenSuse
11.4 system, you must connect to m5.chicago.il.us, either with telnet
or with ssh, as user "opensuse".  You will then be taken, via an
internal ssh over the LAN, to the OpenSuse system, where you will be
logged in as "guest" if you supply the correct password, which is
"guest".  You are also welcome to come to the Shachter Labs in person
and log in directly to the console.

The above is true, mutatis mutandis, of the usernames "redhat" and
"solaris9".  The computer has been set up as a multiboot system, but
only runs one operating system at a time, so you can only log in to
the system that the computer is currently running.  As of this
writing, I expect that most of the time the computer will be running
OpenSuse 11.4.

One final, important, note: you must ssh to my computer using port
232, and you must telnet using port 233.  These are not the standard
ports for those services; I changed them, because too many attempts
were being made -- there were, literally, more than 10,000 a month --
to log in to the computer with administrative privileges.

If, after reading the above, you have any difficulty accessing our new
computer, you may contact us using any of the means indicated below.


	Jay F. Shachter
	6424 N Whipple St
	Chicago IL  60645-4111
		(1-773)7613784
                http://m5.chicago.il.us
		jay at m5.chicago.il.us

	"But when she traced the killer's IP address ... it was in the 192.168/16 block!"