Could my 10 year old SDF account still exist?
Could my 10 year old SDF account still exist?
I had forgotten about SDF but seeing SDF instance on Lemmy caught my attention. I used to use SDF for a while about 10 years ago and now it would be interesting to see if I have left anything interesting there.
I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was. I don't remember my password though. I tried to log in but to no avail. Is there any way to know whether my account still exists? Do accounts get removed if they're not used for long periods of time?
You can run the command
finger username@sdf.orgto see if an account with that name exists.Does that work for you? I tried it locally, and got no results. I also tried it from a shell on sdf, and also got no results.
@murph It does. Try
finger jlamothe@sdf.org(that's me).
Could my 10 year old SDF account still exist?
Mine does. I finally remembered to log back in and there she is...
Caveat: the hostname had changed; I signed up at lonestar.sdf.org IIRC (no longer extant) and now it is on freeshell.org
I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was
Another caveat: I think usernames were truncated to 8 chars in that time period. Don't know if that's the case now or not, or if extra chars are thrown away anyhow.
I tried finger as the other commenter suggested. I tried bunch of variations. Whole username, 8 chars truncated, and a shorter version which was in my notes. I also tried both sdf.org and freeshell.org. All of them gave me an empty output. I guess the fact that it didn't output
no such usermeans it must be either of them. Or all of them refer to the same user.I also found an email sent from my sdf user. The address in format
username@sdf.orghad the whole username (more than 8 chars). Then there's the shortest version of the name in my notes. That's written assdf.lonestar.org/1/users/username. No idea what that refers to. Seems I didn't take very good notes. So which of these would more probably be the correct one?If you are ssh-ing in, I think you want tty.sdf.org.
For finger to work remotely, you have to have set up a .plan file as well as applied correct permissions to it at the time in your home directory.
I have a .plan file, I get that response from finger when I'm on SDF but it doesn't work when I do the lookup remotely. I don't recall the needed permissions.
$ finger chance Login: chance Name: Chance Platt Directory: /sdf/arpa/af/c/chance Shell: /usr/pkg/bin/bash On since Sun Jun 9 09:56 2024 (UTC) on pts/19 from 99.162.15.208 Mail last read Sun Jun 9 09:48 2024 (UTC) Plan: I'm friendly-like.Now, since you know your username, there is a password reset mechanism:
You likely signed up when it was sdf.lonestar.org but I think SDF has had the sdf.org domain for 15+ years at this point, and the freeshell.org domain has been around for over twenty.
Don’t forget sdf-eu.org, if thats what you originally used.
I just found my old gopher page. Given that's still up the user account must be there. Is the username listed on gopherspace the same as the login name?
@siipale For current accounts, yes. I can't answer definitively for legacy ones. I've only been on SDF a couple years now.