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.

Our servers implement a preauthentication sequence that, as a shell user, you would have been made familiar with when you were granted SSH access. Essentially, this simple process authorizes the IP you are connecting from to access the shell server. This is necessary to mitigate the unfortunate number of automatic scans that target SSHd.

If you are having difficulties logging in to your account, you may need to authorize your IP address. To do this, telnet to port 22 of the shell server you are attempting to connect to and enter the password you were given when you first signed up. Note that you only need to do this once per IP.

If you have forgotten that password, or otherwise cannot log in, contact the admins. and they'll walk you through this process or just script it for you.

The SSH host keys of the public SSH server are:

# salvage SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.0
salvage ssh-dss 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
# salvage SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.0
salvage ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAs76PnlRkcQ3+ANtBcVG54USRoVH1sL2I+47hSXkQA/1+8E6hzjE7HFUMVKWZoBipSj0T5buN79B8MjHyNmTidXf6+G54/pYFwDJFQTpEnQvNn85tHgbIqZQcUm6gssbX7EDub/bq8KHZOI2jsFvic03pifNzbvt/KwyP7gQ0saqLTfdwBuZGRRiKD9y/tuhQ/k4HJEmnuFs6TdFY+9VVNO2NSTYUOwpViriKShInqEnYdbGwiFl9znOnEUZkMVa+e0ZQVFsRs6dKP8vlgNaa6QBglLb1CRgdSAI8nJRPzZjL976eyas7+S8DnoyiTqsYxHbvfAufSidA7BFY3x3wCQ==

Feel free to compare them to your ~/.ssh/known_hosts.