Super Dimensional Fortress (a.k.a sdf.org) Configuration

Hi, everyone.

What can be done at sdf.org? Well, basically you can connect to sdf.org via ssh and doing a lot of stuff on the command line.

To make it easy, you should enable public key authentication. Create .ssh directory inside your $HOME at sdf and chmod 700 ~/.ssh so nobody but you have access to .ssh directory.

Generate ssh key using ssh-keygen -t ed25519 on your computer. Copy the content of ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.

Connect to sdf.org and paste the content as ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Fix the permission of authorized_keys file so nobody but you have read-write access chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Now you can connect to sdf.org passwordless: ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -l $(whoami) sdf.org. Just replace $(whoami) with your sdf.org username.

You can send email using mutt. Edit text using vim, nano, or emacs.

You can create gopher site. There is mkgopher script to assist creating your gopher site.

You can host your own website. There is mkhomepg script to initialize homepage configuration.

You can browse the web using text mode web browser such as links, lynx, or w3m.

You can view sdf.org bulletin board via bboard.

Of course, you can become ARPA member to support sdf.org with many added benefits.