Accessing your Siriad account

Shell access to Siriad accounts is available to customers. For security purposes, Siriad uses Kerberos for login authentication. In order to access your account, you will need to be able to use an ssh client which has GSSAPI capabilities (Windows users can use http://matthew.loar.name/software/putty/).

Requesting access

In order to obtain a shell account, please contact support <AT> siriad.com and we will provide you with one for use.

Installation

To authenticate, you will need the kinit binary. The method of installation can vary depending on your OS.

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install krb5-user

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

sudo yum install krb5-workstation

Windows

Please refer to our windows instructions.

OS X

The OS itself should have the binary installed by default.

Authenticating to the SIRIAD.COM realm

Once you have kinit installed, you should be able to login by first obtaining your credentials and then logging into shell.siriad.com.

kinit <username>@SIRIAD.COM
ssh -o "GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes" <username>@shell.siriad.com

Where username is your SIRIAD username.

Note that you can permanently set the GSSAPIDelegateCredentials option by adding the following lines to ~/.ssh/config:

Host shell.siriad.com
    GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes

If you have any trouble accessing your account, please contact support <AT> siriad.com.