Societas Maleficarum offers shell access to worthy and unworthy individuals we know personally or by reputation. We don't charge anything for it, in exchange for which we only grant it to people we know won't abuse it. There are no disk quotas, but SCP transfers are rate-limited. You are welcome to request software installation and push the machines as hard as you like, but if your processes start to interfere with other uses / users of the system, we may ask you to run your jobs elsewhere or renice them.

If you have forgotten your login info (username, password, etc.), or otherwise cannot log in, contact the admins.

One thing to keep in mind is that our public SSH servers implement a mechanism that denies further access to you if you've entered your password incorrectly more than three times. If you are having difficulties logging in to your account, you may need to have us re-authorize you. This is a simple process and you need only drop a line to the admins to let us know. Usually we'll be able to fix the problem within the hour.

The SSH host keys of the public SSH server are located here.

Note that these changed on 18 Aug 2010. Feel free to compare them to your ~/.ssh/known_hosts.