grenzland.club

Introduction
Signing up
Features
Generating SSH Keys
See also

Introduction

grenzland.club is a hobbyist project to run a shared UNIX-like computer for role playing games enthusiasts. It’s related, and currently also still connected to the Grenzland Discord Instance. It’s an old school thing for sure. If you remember how computers worked in the 1990s using grenzland.club should feel eerily familiar. It’s also a community thing. If you’ve ever heard of the tildeverse you’ll have an idea how grenzland.club works. It’s kind of a tilde system, too. We dig being excellent to each other. If you think all of this sounds awesome you’re welcome to sign up.

Signing up

In short the procedure goes like this: generate a public ssh key and send it to lkh@grenzland.club, along with your preferred user handle.

˜lkh will get back to you with a password and notify you, when your key has been installed. From then on you should be able to log in. For a longer explanation, especially on how to generate that "ssh key" see below.

Features

	-		IRC, featuring "norn" the bot.
	-		Netnews, including select gaming related groups from usenet, the campaignwiki.* hierarchy and our own grenzland.club newsgroup.
	-		nethack, and a few more rogue like games (type "nethack -s all" for high scores!)
	-		tilde style user homepages
	-		a user wiki (see below)
	-		an email address in the @grenzland.club domain
	-		XMPP (Jabber), we’re plannig to set up a bridge between XMPP and IRC for convenient use on your smartphone.

Generating SSH Keys

To generate your key you need access to a UNIX or Linux command line. Use the following command to generate a pair of keys:

ssh-keygen -f $HOME/.ssh/grenzland

It’s o.k. to just type enter when prompted for a password. As long as you trust the machine you’re using to connect to grenzland.club you don’t necessarily need a password.

When this is done you should find the following two files in your $HOME/.ssh: grenzland and grenzland.pub. The first is your private key. Don’t show it to anyone! The second is your public key. That’s the one you’ll want to mail to lkh@grenzland.club, for example like so:

cat .ssh/grenzland.pub | mail -s "my public key" lkh@grenzland.club