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There are GNU/Hurd boxes that we're offering shell accounts on.  These are
generally available for people interested in [[contributing]], and who have
already shown some level of involvement in the project. If you simply want to
try the Hurd, the easiest way is running it in a virtual machine.

An alternative to online shell access may be using a [[QEMU
image|hurd/running/qemu]].

[[!table class="table_style_1" data="""
"Hoster","Name","Distribution","Machine Specs","Comments"
"[[bddebian]]","blubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","Celeron 2.2 GHz; 222 MiB","Xen domU on [[zenhost]]; for experimental stuff; deactivated until needed again (apart from [[tschwinge]], only [[scolobb]] has an account, but is not active at the moment)"
"[[bddebian]]","clubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","PIII 1 GHz; 384 MiB"
"[[bddebian]]","flubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","Celeron 2.2 GHz; 666 MiB","Xen domU on [[zenhost]]"
"[[bddebian]]","snubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","Celeron 2.2 GHz; 243 MiB","Xen domU on [[zenhost]]"
"[[bddebian]]","gnubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","PII 733 MHz; 384 MiB"
"[[bddebian]]","goober","Debian GNU/Hurd","?"
"[[bddebian]]","grubber","Debian GNU/Hurd","Celeron 2.2 GHz; 554 MiB","Xen domU on [[zenhost]]; for experimental stuff"
"[[bddebian]]","[[zenhost]]","Debian GNU/Linux","Celeron 2.2 GHz","Xen dom0 for several hosts"
"[[sceen]]","darnassus","Debian GNU/Hurd","Core i5 3.1 GHz, 1.8 GiB","KVM guest on shattrath; public Hurd box; [web server](http://darnassus.sceen.net/)"
"[[sceen]]","ironforge","Debian GNU/Hurd","Core i5 3.1 GHz, 1.8 GiB","KVM guest on shattrath; Debian buildd"
"[[sceen]]","exodar","Debian GNU/Hurd","Core i5 3.1 GHz, 1.8 GiB","KVM guest on shattrath; Debian porterbox, all Debian Developers have access"
"[[sceen]]","shattrath","Debian GNU/Linux","Core i5 3.1 GHz","KVM host"
"Debian","strauss","Debian GNU/Hurd","Sempron 2800+","all Debian Developers have access"
"[libav](http://www.libav.org/)","[x86_32-hurd-gcc-4.7](http://fate.libav.org/x86_32-hurd-gcc-4.7)","Debian GNU/Hurd","","libav instance of the [FATE Automated Test Environment](http://www.libav.org/fate.html)"
"""]]

If you are a Debian Developer, you can log into the exodar or strauss machines
with your DD account, your public ssh keys are already there.  To request a
non-DD account on them, please contact admin@{exodar,strauss}.debian.net, with
your Alioth account name and a public ssh key.

To request an account on the *[[bddebian]]* or *[[sceen]]* machines, please
contact <hurd-shell-account@gnu.org> (don't forget to include your desired user
name and public SSH key).  Also use that contact address for requesting
support, such as get additional packages installed.

For easy access, you should append your public SSH key(s)
to `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` on the remote machine.

Also, add the following stanza to the `~/.ssh/config` file of the machine
you're connecting from.

    # Stanza from <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html>,
    # 2011-11-06.

    Host blubber.bddebian.com blubber
      HostName blubber.bddebian.com
    
    Host clubber.bddebian.com clubber
      HostName clubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2251
    
    Host flubber.bddebian.com flubber
      HostName flubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2250
    
    Host gnubber.bddebian.com gnubber
      HostName gnubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2254
    
    Host goober.bddebian.com goober
      HostName goober.bddebian.com
      Port 2255
    
    Host grubber.bddebian.com grubber
      HostName grubber.bddebian.com
    
    Host snubber.bddebian.com snubber
      HostName snubber.bddebian.com
    
    Host zenhost.bddebian.com zenhost
      HostName zenhost.bddebian.com
      Port 2260
    
    Host blubber.bddebian.com blubber grubber.bddebian.com grubber snubber.bddebian.com snubber
      # Tunnel through zenhost.
      ProxyCommand ssh zenhost exec socat - TCP4:%h:%p
    
    Host *.bddebian.com blubber clubber flubber gnubber goober grubber snubber zenhost
      # Don't worry about the IP address (dial-up connection).
      CheckHostIP no
      User [user name]
    
    Host darnassus.sceen.net darnassus
      HostName darnassus.sceen.net
    
    Host *.sceen.net darnassus
      User [user name]