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# Frequently Asked Questions
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**How do I sign up for an account?**
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Simply by going to our [signup page](/signup.php) and filling in the
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form. You can ask for help in \#thunix on tilde.chat, or you can
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[contact us](/contact.php), if you run into any difficulties.
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**Who is running thunix?**
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The current system administrators are [amcclure](/~amcclure),
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[ubergeek](/~ubergeek), [Naglfar](/~naglfar), and
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[fosslinux](/~fosslinux).
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**What happened to the old thunix? Why the name change?**
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The original machine and founder dissappeared without any warning to
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anyone, including server staff. For this reason, most things were not
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backed up, and we needed to obtain a new domain name, and a new set of
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machines.
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**I want a new package installed, or I want something changed on
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Thunix!**
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Excellent! We're looking to make this system useful for the
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community! You can submit a PR or an issue
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[here](https://tildegit.org/thunix/ansible) to request the system
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change.
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**Can I get password-based login? Old thunix had it!**
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No. Sorry. Not for
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shell access. For other integrated services, password auth will be
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enabled, but not for your ssh connection. We use key based
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authentication, as it's more secure, and more convienent for you, to be
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honest.
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**I want to run {fill in the blank} server, but I can't seem to access
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it?**
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The only exposed ports to the internet are services as defined in
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our [ansible playbook.](https://tildegit.org/thunix/ansible) If there is
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a public service you want to see, open an issue, or do a pull request
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for it, and we'll probably enable it without much question.
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**That's too hard! Can you just open the port up for this service I have
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running?**
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No. Due to security issues, we cannot. HOWEVER! You can
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certainly use an [SSH tunnel](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssh+tunnnel) to
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access it.
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**Old thunix did {fill in the blank}, and now it doesn't. Make it work
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like it used to!**
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There was a huge changeover. Maybe we can get
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something going old thunix had, and maybe not. You can mention it in the
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IRC channel, and we'll see what we can do.
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**How can I access my thunix email?**
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You can use the following for your
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mail settings (This is Thunderbird's setting screen, but the settings
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are the same):
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[](https://thunix.net/images/mail.png)
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