Article users and configuration

I recently changed the articles to be (hopefully) slightly less confusing: I did have an 'onion' user as my main Slice user. However, I also used 'onion' as my local workstation user. This caused a little confusion when showing commands on both the Slice and the local workstation.

As such, I have changed the users to allow for easier interpretation.

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Slice Setup

All tutorials are created and tested on standard 256MB Slices. Which OS I use for the articles will depend to which OS the article refers to.

On other words, the Ubuntu LTS articles are all created and tested using an Ubuntu LTS slice and so on.

Slice user

The main user (and usually the only user I will refer to on a Slice) is named 'demo'.

So if you see a command such as:

ls -al /home/demo/.ssh/authorized_keys

You can be sure it refers the the file system on the Slice.

Images of Slice output will show the name of the OS like so:

As you can see, the image clearly shows the OS name (in this case, Dapper).

Local Workstation Setup

On my local workstation I use Linux, SuSE 10.2 to be exact.

99% of the time, it does not matter what OS my workstation is running as all commands will be given via the console (or shell). Once you have a console running, all things will be the same.

Workstation user

The main user shown for my local workstation is named 'onion'.

An image from my workstation output would look like this:

This image clearly showing the username involved.with the terminal 'tab' displaying 'Workstation'.

Summary

Slice user: demo

Workstation user: onion

PickledOnion.