> > Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > >>[...] > >> > > > >I was actually thinking of offering shell accounts on my server box to > >anyone here who wants one, if there was any interest. *shrug* > > As one who is not averse to blatantly displaying their ignorance on select occassions, I'd like to ask for some further clarification on "shell accounts." I've seen them mentioned here before and did a little web searching to find out what they are. Of course I mananged to find some things. But nothing that I found indicated to me why anyone would want one. What's the purpose? To use the resources of a more powerful computer remotely? Some sort of privacy issue? I understand that shell accounts were sort of a remote computing standard at one time, but are now obsolete. Is that correct? The main confusion I have about shell accounts may stem from the fact that my experience of remote computing (am I making up a new term here?) has been through dialin ISP's. You pay them to give you access to the 'net, an email account, perhaps webspace for your pages. And, if you have a shell account, to get access to your shell account. So, in theory, the shell account must offer something additonal that the ISP you pay, doesn't. What is it?
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