• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    When I read “open shell account server” I thought this meant anyone can get access programmatically. This sounded like a disaster.

    But turns out, at least with the respect to this NetBSD specific offer, you have to send out an application.

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      16 days ago

      Yeah a shell account is a standard term for getting a terminal access in a shared system going all the way back to mainframes.

      Most universities at least in the US had a thing called a Sunsite that came with shell access sometimes.