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People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers

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90 points sugarpimpdorsey | 3 comments | 30 Jul 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source
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rwmj ◴[03 Aug 25 08:01 UTC] No.44774950[source]▶
We have these at work and there was a big outcry when IT tried to get rid of them. I use them from time to time to do things like: Keep git and other backups. Convenient place to scp files to/from. Upload files that coworkers can grab. I don't use it, but others used them as permanent IRC endpoints (using screen or tmux presumably).

Notice a cloud VM or container probably doesn't work here. You need something with a permanent presence, and shared between users (with separate Unix accounts).

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1. bravesoul2 ◴[03 Aug 25 12:22 UTC] No.44776060[source]▶
What's the difference between this and a Ubuntu running on EC2 with various users and SSH?
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2. ndileas ◴[03 Aug 25 12:25 UTC] No.44776076[source]▶
Mostly annoying network configs and token expirations etc. Not saying it can't be set up well, but in my experience some security guru gets a hardon for making my life miserable.
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3. calgoo ◴[03 Aug 25 12:36 UTC] No.44776135[source]▶
That depends... If your AWS account is already wired up the internal network then the ec2 is basically just another VM just like the onprem VMware servers or physical machines.

Now if all your AWS accounts are only public facing then yes it can get a bit more complicated .