Eglide

Eglide is a shell server donated by Sandlayth for an independant shell project.

Responsibilities and involvement

• Eglide is an independent shell project free to use
• Nasqueron supports the infrastructure and ITC management
• Wolfplex Hackerspace gives support to users @ Libera Chat #wolfplex (there is also a channel #eglide)

Create an account

What do you need?

• A username
• A SSH key (see PuTTY with SSH key tutorial if you're on Windows) - keep the private part for you, communicate only the public part

Create an account

Workflow

To create an account, we follow the following workflow:

1. You create a task to request an account
2. A change is created by your or an ops for our operations repository
3. The change is deployed by an ops

Anyone can create the change, while Nasqueron Operations SIG is responsible for approving and deploying commits to Operations repository.

If you want to submit the change yourself

You're welcome to submit a change for our Operations repository following How to contribute code.

You need to submit a change with just two files to edit:

• rOPS: pillar/core/users.sls: your user account
• rOPS: pillar/core/groups.sls: add yourself in the group shell (that's the first one)

UID can be picked by running ./utils/next-uid.py or by looking carefully in users.sls the next one available in the 2xxx series (uid in 5xxx are deprecated).

Note there could be here an egg and chicken problem: if you want a shell to get a comfortable environment for contributing with already everything installed and ready, it can be difficult to use arc.

In that case, here what we suggest:

   $ git clone https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/source/operations.git
   $ $EDITOR pillar/core/users.sls pillar/core/groups.sls
   $ git diff

Then you copy/paste the diff generated here: https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/differential/diff/create/

Or you can also create a patch with git format-patch and attach it to the task:

   $ git switch -c user-create
   $ git add pillar/core/users.sls pillar/core/groups.sls
   $ git commit -m "Create user account for yourusernamehere on Eglide"
   $ git format-patch origin/main

To upload a file to the task, you'll find an icon Upload a file in the comment section of your task. Drag and drop works too.

Networking

IP connectivity

IPv4: 51.159.150.221

IPv6: 2001:470:1f13:896:0:c0de:15:11fe

IPv6 is provided by an HE tunnel, our range is 2001:470:1f13:896::/64.

It's possible to reserve an IP for a service, and customize reverse DNS. Also, if we move from one ISP to another, or from one DC to another, this block moves with us while IPv4 will probably change.

Working network configuration state can be found on Devcentral.

Ports

Port	User	Service	Configuration source
22	root	OpenSSH	/etc/ssh/sshd_config
80	www-data	nginx	/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
443	www-data	nginx	/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
12000	bitlbee	bitlbee	rOPS: roles/shellserver/userland-software/files/etc__init.d__bitlbee

Policies

See Eglide/Policies.

See also

• Operations grimoire/Create and revoke user accounts on Salt servers
• Operations grimoire/Deploy with Salt (Eglide is purely managed through rOPS and Salt)
• Operations grimoire/Eglide