[15-Apr-03; Updated: 19-Apr-04]

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                 SDF Public Access UNIX System MetaARPA Guide 
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  First of all, thank you for choosing to become a sustaining member of SDF!
  Its greatly appreciated.  MetaARPA membership means you are a trusted
  user, and with that, there is responsibility you gain with your membership.

           MetaARPA members may connect to 'sverige.freeshell.org' 

  This message is to serve as a quick reference to the commands you can 
  now use under MetaARPA.  For more detailed information, check out the 
  'faq' or post on the 'bboard'.

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                       New commands and what they do
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  mkcron   -  This allows you to install and edit a crontab or maintainence
              job which will run at a specific time whether you are logged
              in or not.  You can run this command from any host.  Please
              note that cronjobs are not meant to be used as keep alives,
              especially in the use of an IRC channel bot or similar. 

  mdns     -  Update DNS.  This allows you to set the IP address for your
              MetaDNS feature (login.mdns.org).

  setvmail -  setvmail allows you to toggle on or off any SDF domain you'd
              like to receive or block email from.  This helps you by allowing
              you to have a unique email address and gives you the ability to
              potentially block unwanted spam.

  setgrp   -  setgrp allows you to add/remove users from your personal 
              user's group.  You can use this to allow certain people
              access to a particular file or directory.
  
  validate -  validate allows you to promote a new or prevalidated user to
              validated status.  This sets their shell to '/bin/ksh' and
              gives them normal user access to SDF.

  ssh service is available to MetaARPA members on port 443 using the hosts
  otaku, vinland or gronland (and possibly others).  It can be used as a
  way to get into SDF if you are using a site that firewalls the standard
  port 22.  Another feature you have is SSH tunneling/ TCP forwarding. 
  Basically, you can use this feature to tunnel a connection through the
  SDF Secure Shell service.  What this will do is encrypt your packets
  through encapsulation of the SSH protocol so you can secure http, pop3
  and other connections to any remote host on the internet.

  To the remote host, your origin will appear to be sdf.lonestar.org.  Because
  of this, we ask you (and we believe you won't) not to use this feature as a 
  shield while you attempt to gain access to a site you are unauthorised to 
  connect to or while you shoot your mouth off on an IRC channel.  Again, 
  you are trusted and we don't believe you will, but we have to mention it. 

  For more information on setting up an SSH tunnel via MACOS X or UNIX,
  read the FAQ:<EMAIL>08