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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
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 user
means 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
[email protected]
had 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.
Now, since you know your username, there is a password reset mechanism:
Password Reset at SDF Wiki
I tried
recover
but it saysno such user
. It very well might be that I didn't set up any password recovery ten years ago. So either there's no user with that login anymore or it reports no such user because it's not set up for recovery. Maybe I'll try make a new user with same username.@siipale You could try reaching out to [email protected].
You know what, I just checked, and account expiry is covered in the FAQ.
It might well be expired.
I second emailing membership, they might be able to help you. Or if you trust one of us, we might be able to check, as well.
This is not true. I do not have a
~/.plan
file. I just double checked in case I set one up and forgot about it.finger
still pulls some basic information without one.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 actually tried to finger the same usernames on sdfeu.org and it reports
no such user
so I guess it's not there.