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New Accounts

New accounts are opened with permission from Dr. S. Hanson.
After you get permission from Dr.Hanson (CC SysAdmin) you need
to email the following items to SysAdmin (please include next items
as attachments,  i.e., do not cut-paste into the email text)
  1. a completed account form
  2. a public SSH key
The SSH key must be secured with a passphrase. More information
on how to generate and use the keys under GNU/Linux is available
online.  MS Windoze people  can use the free PuTTY ssh client and
pagent to generate a key.  More details on Windoze setup can be
found  here.

Send the form and the key as attachments in plain text format.  Please do
not send them as MS Word or *Office documents.

When your account is created please go to the link on Using Ravana.  Before
asking any question please use "Search" on the Instructions page to see if the
issue was already discussed.