💾 Archived View for cosmic.voyage › join.txt captured on 2020-09-24 at 01:40:02.
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Anyone who enjoys writing is welcome to join Cosmic.Voyage. To do
so you will need to choose a username for the system, and create
an SSH pubkey to log in. This is a public access unix system, so
you will be working in a command-line shell environment to
interact with the system. Getting started instructions:
For Linux Users:
- open a terminal
- generate a key using ssh-keygen (just accept all the defaults)
- your secret key is the file ~/.ssh/id_rsa
- your public key is the file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- send the id_rsa.pub file to james [at] tomasino.org along
with your desired username
- when your account has been approved, connect using ssh and your
user name, e.g. ssh asimov@cosmic.voyage
For Mac Users:
- use Command+Space to search for Terminal
- generate a key using ssh-keygen (just accept all the defaults)
- your secret key is the file ~/.ssh/id_rsa
- your public key is the file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- send the id_rsa.pub file to james [at] tomasino.org along
with your desired username
- when your account has been approved, connect using ssh and your
user name, e.g. ssh asimov@cosmic.voyage
For Windows Users:
- download the latest version of PuTTY
- use puttygen to generate a key
- save private and public keys
- send the public key to james [at] tomasino.org along with
your desired username
- when your account has been approved, start pageant (this will
put an icon of a computer wearing a hat into the System tray)
- right click the icon and choose View Keys
- click the Add Keys button
- select the private key you created up above and open it
- start putty and connect to your username at cosmic.voyage, e.g.
asimov@cosmic.voyage
Once you log in to the system for the first time, you will have a
welcome email waiting for you. You can read this message by
running the 'alpine' or 'mutt' commands to open the respective
mail program. Alpine is easier for those unfamiliar with the
command line. Your welcome email will explain how to get started
on the system and where to look for help.