[Noisebridge-discuss] Shell accounts at noisebridge

[Rubin Abdi]

Andy Isaacson wrote, On 2009/04/12 13:01:
> Are you saying it's a Pony with Benefits?
>
> Note that there aren't any backups on Pony, so don't depend on it to
> hold irreplaceable information!  And of course it's not in a physically
> secure location, and it's a general purpose UNIX system populated by a
> bunch of hackers, so you'd be crazy to trust that it's completely
> secure.  I don't forward X11 or ssh-agent to it and wouldn't recommend
> anyone else do so.

Another way of looking at Pony is that it's a sandbox. It may or may not 
work and there are no backups what so ever. This though doesn't stop 
other users from creating backups or looking into why Pony may not be 
functioning at any given time. Then again this also means that anyone 
can just walk up to the machine and power cycle it when they think their 
login issues can fixed with such things.

If you're (someone with a project) is looking for space to dump their 
crap, the machine does have Mercurial which means any projects that are 
checked into the repository are also distributed to anyone else who does 
a checkout and update of that project will have a full copy.

Other then my pants, there is no security at Noisebridge.

Pony has been up and running for 44 days in a row.

-- 
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net