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A shell account is a personal account that gives a user access to a Unix shell on a remote server, usually accessed through SSH (and historically telnet). A shell account can be used for many different purposes because many different programs can be run on the shell. It might be used to try out another operating system, running IRC clients or bots, compile and run source code and scripts, to host websites, or to use e-mail services. It might be possible to run programs on the server even while not connected, using background jobs or programs such as the GNU screen terminal multiplexer.
Most servers have policies in place on the accounts that limit different kind of resources, like disk usage (Disk quota) or processes.
On some free shell accounts services, if there is no login to a particular account for a long period of time, that account may get automatically deleted. Free shell account services often do not allow background processes.
Historical free shell account providers
- Arbornet - FreeBSD - Started in 1984, Sold in 1990 and then again in 1991.
- Grex - OpenBSD (formerly SunOS) - Founded in 1991
- Super Dimension Fortress (SDF) - NetBSD (formerly SVR3 on the 3B2) - Founded in 1987
References
External links
- Template:Dmoz (updated January 2008)
- Jan's list of free shell providers (wikified and updated frequently)
- ClueNet's free shell providers list (wikified)
- Mitja's list of free shell providers
- List of free shell providers (sorted by operating system)
- FreeBSD Shell - A full featured FreeBSD shell environment.