[Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Mon Oct 1 18:38:13 UTC 2012


Thanks, I am able to login with my key to both the admin and root
accounts.

Ken

P.S. box3-squeak is fine, the primary hostname is really not relevant to
us as more than a reference for the handful of us who directly access
the box.  All other access is via CNAMEs anyway and so the actual
hostname is rarely noticed by anyone.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server
> From: Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, October 01, 2012 11:28 am
> To: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> Cc: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>,
> squeak at sfconservancy.org
> 
> 
> On 12-10-01 11:43 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > I've created the server for you.  Here's it's IPv4 address.
> >
> >   IP address: 173.246.101.237
> >
> > Gandi oddly always asks for a username to be the administrator, and
> > won't take "root" as the name of account.  I made it "admin" which is
> > their default, so I presume Ken will need to ssh in with:
> >     ssh 173.246.101.237 -l admin
> > but should also try:
> >    ssh 173.246.101.237 -l root
> >
> > (just in case)
> >
> > Note that I saw Ken's ssh key had more /'s in it than I would have
> > expect, so I was a bit worried it had come from cut-and-paste.  Attached
> > is the ssh key I used, so you can verify I used the right one if you
> > have trouble logging in.
> >
> > Note that I called it "box3-squeak", mainly so that when it shows up in
> > the main Gandi menu, I can see clearly that it's squeak.  I presume you
> > can change the host name.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I've gotten no response from my contacts in Gandi about the
> > user management problem.  If you need reboots or console, for the
> > moment, you'll have to email me.  I'll keep in touch with Gandi (and
> > other VPS hosters) to find out if there's a way to solve this problem
> > when you have a consolidated account for billing but lots of discrete
> > groups of people managing the VPS's.  It seems no one has thought about
> > that problem yet, oddly!
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks Bradley!
> 
> I'll be adding news of the SFC and Gandi's assistance in today's Squeak 
> Oversight Board minutes. And then The Weekly Squeak blog on Sunday.
> 
> It's great to be moving forward with this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris


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