Thanks for your fun post! I am 75! And still having a lot of fun! So, maybe I still am young?
I remember a while back you posted something by chatGPT in the Cest Pit. That was the first I had heard about chatGPT. chatGPT's writing was so perfect that I wondered whether you had done the writing. I mean, your writing is perfect, and what's to prevent you from joking about chatGPT output? Well, since then I've seen more chatGPT output. It's really something!
Thanks for kind words about my writing.
And I suppose
My point was well reflected by chatGPT.
!oles = young “Jack” from Noo York, now living la vida loca in May hi ko :-)
(Language butchered by intention- ironic, since my writing was praised in generous terms .. )
@yoursunny said:
I notice that @Cloudie AS924 is an upstream of this server.
Is it possible to obtain a (free) BGP session with AS924?
I recently acquired a LowEndASN and RIPE says it cannot be idle.
I'd like an LXC container, with its Ethernet adapter bridged to the physical port, to run a BGP daemon.
Hi @yoursunny! I don't know if it is possible to obtain a free BGP session with AS924. I am delighted to ask @Cloudie for you if you would like me to do so. He's pretty good about getting back to me. Would you like me to ask him? Best wishes! Tom
Yes please ask.
I already asked AS924 on Discord but was ignored…
Their peering offer says to send coffee.
Thanks for your post! Welcome to LES! It's great to meet you!
We need your ed25519 ssh public key to give you an account. Would you please post your key?
Also, since you are a new member, here's a great opportunity to share a little about who you are, where you are, your experience, what brought you to LES, and what you would like to do on the server.
Thanks again for joining LES and for posting here!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIK0uESAZCIorFq9qnnJ4t4VhGBWKSHh4xvNghmcqQkyb ed25519-key-20221216
I'm from Singapore.I'm interested in the Apline Shell .I want to play with and learn more about it.
thanks
Your account also has a password. Password login has been disabled, but you might need your password if we implement sudo.
When you get a chance to try to login, please let us know whether login works for you.
I enjoyed the friendly message you wrote! Thanks for taking the extra time to provide the details! I hope you have fun on the server! Please don't hesitate to post any questions you have.
Best wishes and kindest regards!
Tom
thank you so much! i was able to login now i got most of december free so i am mostly gonna drown myself into figuring things out and having fun with this. hopefully i wont break anything
Hi @Fritz! Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, I think I might be the oldest guy here, but one never knows. I wish you and everyone here many years of happiness! Have fun! Tom
@terrorgen said:
Omg Tom. If that's your real age, you're older than my dad!
Please say hello to your Dad for me. Please tell him that I believe he should be very proud of himself, because be did a superb job of raising his child. If you do as well raising yours, there will be great happiness in the continuation of life! Best wishes and kindest regards to you and your family!
Nice username! Thanks for posting! If you do not mind, could you please share a little about who and where you are? Also your Linux experience? Plus, if there is a reason why you want to use an RSA key instead of an ed25519 key, may we please know what the reason is? Last, but not least, it would be great if you could share a little more specifically about what you want to do on the server. Thanks again!
I think I might be all caught up with new account requests. If I missed anyone, please ping me again.
If any of my Chinese friends here are on NodeSeek.com, can you please give me a clue about whether I somehow could get an account there without Telegram? NodeSeek's sign up form asks for a Telegram invite, and I do not have Telegram.
I think I might be all caught up with new account requests. If I missed anyone, please ping me again.
If any of my Chinese friends here are on NodeSeek.com, can you please give me a clue about whether I somehow could get an account there without Telegram? NodeSeek's sign up form asks for a Telegram invite, and I do not have Telegram.
Thanks everybody!
Tom
Hey you don't need a telegram account to register, just an email address!
What does the line "我们的电报频道 @nodeseekc 会不定时释放邀请码，欢迎关注" mean?
Google Translate says it means:
Invitation code
Our telegram channel @nodeseekc will release invitation codes from time to time, welcome to pay attention
So I was guessing I had to go to Telegram, get an invitation code, and enter that invitation code in the last string field on the page, just above the checkbox for Agree to Terms of Service Agreement.
Thanks for your help! It would be fun for me to learn more Chinese! I don't hardly know any.
@19930618 said:
I would also love to try one of the accounts. Thank you
Hey! Hello 19930618!
Glad to see you posting here! You're new here at LES, from April, and you only have visited a few times. Would you like, please, to introduce yourself by telling us a bit about who and where you are, your computer experience, and what you want to do on the server? Also, could you please post or PM your ed25519 public key? Thanks so much!
Best wishes!
Tom
Hi Tom!
I come from China and now work in an Internet company.
I'm interested in Alpine Linux Shell. Want to learn.
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAID9JLXkQwQ0KJ4cVI2tVeGVH6g1iIeLD++QXS5l7FN86 root@64301888a11a
Your account also has a password, which you can find in a file in your home directory. You might need the password if we implement sudo. Please feel free to change your password.
Please post here to let us know whether you are able to log in.
I hope you have a lot of fun on the server!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
Tom hi!
I can't log in. The key should be correct. [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Hello!
Sorry to hear that you cannot login!
I double checked your home directory, .ssh subdirectory and the authorized_keys file. Everything seemed okay.
I added my key to the authorized keys file, and I couldn't login as you either.
I ran ssh with the -v flag, and there were a couple of lines that I haven't seen before.
So I still am looking into this. Having a clueless™ guy as admin isn't good sometimes. I will look around some more and see what I can learn. Apologies! And thanks for your patience!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
If you've not yet fixed this, at a guess the .ssh directory is probably readable/writable by other users. Try chmod og-rwx ~user/.ssh
@ralf said: If you've not yet fixed this, at a guess the .ssh directory is probably readable/writable by other users. Try chmod og-rwx ~user/.ssh
Hi @ralf! Thanks for helping! Do the following permissions look okay? notoles ssh access works. ssh works for 16 additional users and for root. 19930618 access does not work.
fmt:~# cd /home
fmt:/home# ls -alR 19930618/ notoles/
19930618/:
total 16
drwxr-sr-x 3 19930618 19930618 4096 Dec 15 23:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 16 20:20 ..
drwx------ 2 19930618 19930618 4096 Dec 16 05:58 .ssh
-rw------- 1 19930618 19930618 17 Dec 15 23:23 password
19930618/.ssh:
total 16
drwx------ 2 19930618 19930618 4096 Dec 16 05:58 .
drwxr-sr-x 3 19930618 19930618 4096 Dec 15 23:24 ..
-rw------- 1 19930618 19930618 110 Dec 16 05:58 authorized_keys
-rw------- 1 19930618 19930618 198 Dec 16 04:32 authorized_keys-old
notoles/:
total 16
drwxr-sr-x 3 notoles notoles 4096 Dec 12 01:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 16 20:20 ..
-rw------- 1 notoles notoles 102 Dec 16 19:51 .ash_history
drwx------ 2 notoles notoles 4096 Dec 12 01:13 .ssh
notoles/.ssh:
total 12
drwx------ 2 notoles notoles 4096 Dec 12 01:13 .
drwxr-sr-x 3 notoles notoles 4096 Dec 12 01:15 ..
-rw------- 1 notoles notoles 480 Dec 12 01:13 authorized_keys
fmt:/home#
Having a numeric only ID might be the problem. Maybe ssh is interpreting it as a user ID rather than user name.
If you're really intent on having this, you might also want to change their user ID (probably 10xx currently) to the same as the username, but some programs might also assume a 16-bit maximum UID.
If you do want to change it, the easiest is to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group manually, then do chown -R user:group /home/user.
I think I might be all caught up with new account requests. If I missed anyone, please ping me again.
If any of my Chinese friends here are on NodeSeek.com, can you please give me a clue about whether I somehow could get an account there without Telegram? NodeSeek's sign up form asks for a Telegram invite, and I do not have Telegram.
Thanks everybody!
Tom
Hello, Tom. I'm in nodeseek.com and can invite you to join, since every member in nodeseek will get one invite code for free if they registered via phone. There are many invite codes in their telegram channel, and I think the administrators of nodeseek won't mind I paste them here as they share invites codes in other places, too. Some codes may be used by others, so just try another if the code was used up.
@ralf said:
Having a numeric only ID might be the problem. Maybe ssh is interpreting it as a user ID rather than user name.
If you're really intent on having this, you might also want to change their user ID (probably 10xx currently) to the same as the username, but some programs might also assume a 16-bit maximum UID.
If you do want to change it, the easiest is to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group manually, then do chown -R user:group /home/user.
Yep! Now it gets even more interesting and fun!
I, too, wondered about the numerical ID. Well, that ID works here on LES. Still, maybe there is something about ssh, or about Alpine's musl libc.
The user sent me a second public key. The second key did not work either.
What I did next was to create an additional, new account with an alphabetic name. I gave that account the second public key that this user had supplied. I added my own key as the second line of the authorized_keys file. Wow! I couldn't get in! Then I removed the user supplied key, leaving just my own key in authorized_keys. Wow! Again I couldn't get in!
The user sent me the private key which corresponds to his second public key. I still need to try that set.
Another as yet untried possible solution is for me to make a set of keys and try them. If they work for me, I can send the newly made public and private key set to the user and ask him please to try.
Concievably there might be something about the user supplied keys that might not be valid?
But if I substitute just my own public key for the user's key, removing his key entirely, login still doesn't work for me with my own key. That seems really weird!
Just kidding around, but could we imagine a hacked ssh public key, a single use of which borked ssh forever for the account that used the hacked key? Again just kidding. . . .
Maybe I will next try creating a new account on the server with a new set of public and private ssh keys from my Chromebook. If the new key set works, then I could send them to the user and let him try them if he wants to do so.
Fascinating! Thanks again @ralf! Much appreciated!
What does the line "我们的电报频道 @nodeseekc 会不定时释放邀请码，欢迎关注" mean?
Google Translate says it means:
Invitation code
Our telegram channel @nodeseekc will release invitation codes from time to time, welcome to pay attention
So I was guessing I had to go to Telegram, get an invitation code, and enter that invitation code in the last string field on the page, just above the checkbox for Agree to Terms of Service Agreement.
Thanks for your help! It would be fun for me to learn more Chinese! I don't hardly know any.
Hey @laecm! Thanks! I used the above code. It seemed to work! The translations in the screenshot are from Google Translate. But maybe I eventually will learn a little Chinese from this! Thanks again!
Welcome to LES! Thanks for asking for a free Alpine shell account at MetalVPS fmt!
Since you have a very new account, would you like, please, to share with us a little about yourself, like who you are and where you are? Maybe you could please share about your Linux experience and also more specifically what you plan to do with your shell account?
Of course, to set up your account, we need your ed25519 public ssh key. So maybe you might want to share your key with us as well?
Thanks again for asking for an account! I wish you a good day!
Comments
HI @vyas!
Thanks for your fun post! I am 75! And still having a lot of fun!
So, maybe I still am young?
I remember a while back you posted something by chatGPT in the Cest Pit. That was the first I had heard about chatGPT. chatGPT's writing was so perfect that I wondered whether you had done the writing. I mean, your writing is perfect, and what's to prevent you from joking about chatGPT output? Well, since then I've seen more chatGPT output. It's really something!
Here's an interesting thread from HN about chatGPT: Tell HN: ChatGPT can reply like a specific Reddit or HN user, including you | Hacker News.
chatGPT is the dawn of a new age!
Cheers!
Tom
MetalVPS
Hi @Not_Oles
Never imagine that number in my head before (75).
Love your passion and spirit!
https://microlxc.net/
He is on his second cycle of the all important number.
9 more years to move to third.
@Not_Oles saan,
Thanks for kind words about my writing.
And I suppose
My point was well reflected by chatGPT.
!oles = young “Jack” from Noo York, now living la vida loca in May hi ko :-)
(Language butchered by intention- ironic, since my writing was praised in generous terms .. )
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Omg Tom. If that's your real age, you're older than my dad!
The all seeing eye sees everything...
Yes please ask.
I already asked AS924 on Discord but was ignored…
Their peering offer says to send coffee.
Webhosting24 aff best VPS; ServerFactory aff best VDS; Cloudie best ASN; Huel aff best brotein.
sent in DM, please check
Why?
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIK0uESAZCIorFq9qnnJ4t4VhGBWKSHh4xvNghmcqQkyb ed25519-key-20221216
I'm from Singapore.I'm interested in the Apline Shell .I want to play with and learn more about it.
thanks
thank you so much! i was able to login now
i got most of december free so i am mostly gonna drown myself into figuring things out and having fun with this. hopefully i wont break anything 
Nice project
I'd like to learn more about Alpine shell and also.... have fun of course.
Thanks.
May I use RSA pub key instead?
My RSA pub key:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDZDTb0bB3MyJEbXhIltb+lo86Fh+6pvIzbWfdGSs5i+4UN1AaBSlzn5PhMp1Co8bo2JXeWpUEW3EINUNgRaLfrj1pNBOOMy7OZ5u9UIiL/ynM9tuy/CrptIHgTmshmlUtZl81F2pnKuCxnJ+iSLCVRb+rGDBiU6mpzLIosAacnQK7v81Fj465bxolrvf/p37uTVSu8tEXcuyEKg7Frvfy1N0LP5j15Xu6kOg/Ry7QwoZz6hy7XeEgJTduSVOIGgRjajOceBpNcgteqySZ0ML48q+VBo+Uv6p/fSb88JiM5MO3Qp/30B+1BJornhnxsnduw832vW840ptK6bIUanRcH
Hi @Fritz! Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, I think I might be the oldest guy here, but one never knows. I wish you and everyone here many years of happiness! Have fun! Tom
MetalVPS
I think about the important number every day of every year. And especially when I use ssh!
MetalVPS
Please say hello to your Dad for me. Please tell him that I believe he should be very proud of himself, because be did a superb job of raising his child.
If you do as well raising yours, there will be great happiness in the continuation of life! Best wishes and kindest regards to you and your family! 
MetalVPS
Hi @curl!
Nice username! Thanks for posting! If you do not mind, could you please share a little about who and where you are? Also your Linux experience? Plus, if there is a reason why you want to use an RSA key instead of an ed25519 key, may we please know what the reason is? Last, but not least, it would be great if you could share a little more specifically about what you want to do on the server. Thanks again!
Best wishes from Sonora!
Tom
MetalVPS
Hello!
I think I might be all caught up with new account requests. If I missed anyone, please ping me again.
If any of my Chinese friends here are on NodeSeek.com, can you please give me a clue about whether I somehow could get an account there without Telegram? NodeSeek's sign up form asks for a Telegram invite, and I do not have Telegram.
Thanks everybody!
Tom
MetalVPS
Hey you don't need a telegram account to register, just an email address!
The all seeing eye sees everything...
@terrorgen
What does the line "我们的电报频道 @nodeseekc 会不定时释放邀请码，欢迎关注" mean?
Google Translate says it means:
Invitation code
Our telegram channel @nodeseekc will release invitation codes from time to time, welcome to pay attention
So I was guessing I had to go to Telegram, get an invitation code, and enter that invitation code in the last string field on the page, just above the checkbox for Agree to Terms of Service Agreement.
Thanks for your help! It would be fun for me to learn more Chinese!
I don't hardly know any. 
MetalVPS
If you've not yet fixed this, at a guess the .ssh directory is probably readable/writable by other users. Try
chmod og-rwx ~user/.sshHi @ralf! Thanks for helping! Do the following permissions look okay? notoles ssh access works. ssh works for 16 additional users and for root. 19930618 access does not work.
MetalVPS
Having a numeric only ID might be the problem. Maybe ssh is interpreting it as a user ID rather than user name.
If you're really intent on having this, you might also want to change their user ID (probably 10xx currently) to the same as the username, but some programs might also assume a 16-bit maximum UID.
If you do want to change it, the easiest is to edit
/etc/passwdand/etc/group manually, then dochown -R user:group /home/user.Hello, Tom. I'm in nodeseek.com and can invite you to join, since every member in nodeseek will get one invite code for free if they registered via phone. There are many invite codes in their telegram channel, and I think the administrators of nodeseek won't mind I paste them here as they share invites codes in other places, too. Some codes may be used by others, so just try another if the code was used up.
Maybe I can ask administrators of nodeseek to send some official invite code here, if more people are interested in the newly founded community🤔.
Yep! Now it gets even more interesting and fun!
I, too, wondered about the numerical ID. Well, that ID works here on LES. Still, maybe there is something about ssh, or about Alpine's musl libc.
The user sent me a second public key. The second key did not work either.
What I did next was to create an additional, new account with an alphabetic name. I gave that account the second public key that this user had supplied. I added my own key as the second line of the authorized_keys file. Wow! I couldn't get in! Then I removed the user supplied key, leaving just my own key in authorized_keys. Wow! Again I couldn't get in!
The user sent me the private key which corresponds to his second public key. I still need to try that set.
Another as yet untried possible solution is for me to make a set of keys and try them. If they work for me, I can send the newly made public and private key set to the user and ask him please to try.
Concievably there might be something about the user supplied keys that might not be valid?
But if I substitute just my own public key for the user's key, removing his key entirely, login still doesn't work for me with my own key. That seems really weird!
Just kidding around, but could we imagine a hacked ssh public key, a single use of which borked ssh forever for the account that used the hacked key? Again just kidding. . . .
Maybe I will next try creating a new account on the server with a new set of public and private ssh keys from my Chromebook. If the new key set works, then I could send them to the user and let him try them if he wants to do so.
Fascinating! Thanks again @ralf! Much appreciated!
MetalVPS
Dang you are right! I missed that.
The all seeing eye sees everything...
I'd like to learn more about Alpine shell and have fun of course.
Thanks.
fab4bb4475325bfb
Hey @laecm! Thanks! I used the above code. It seemed to work! The translations in the screenshot are from Google Translate. But maybe I eventually will learn a little Chinese from this! Thanks again!
MetalVPS
Hi @rcdfrd!
Welcome to LES! Thanks for asking for a free Alpine shell account at MetalVPS fmt!
Since you have a very new account, would you like, please, to share with us a little about yourself, like who you are and where you are? Maybe you could please share about your Linux experience and also more specifically what you plan to do with your shell account?
Of course, to set up your account, we need your ed25519 public ssh key. So maybe you might want to share your key with us as well?
Thanks again for asking for an account! I wish you a good day!
Best wishes and kindest regards!
Tom
MetalVPS
@Not_Oles ，welcome and have fun here, my member name is "大帅哥" in nodeseek, which means "handsome guy" 🤣🤣🤣.
Hello! I am a little tired. I want to take a day off. Could folks please defer asking for new accounts for 24 hours approximately? Thanks!
MetalVPS
233!
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MetalVPS
It seems like this thread is responsible for the recent influx of new members, mostly from nodeseek.
The all seeing eye sees everything...
I didn't know there was a large enough influx of new members to be noticeable. Tons of people join here all the time because LES is the best!
MetalVPS