In XO/Bandcon Serial Console access

Note: if you are trying to connect to a server in our Telehouse facility, see our Telehouse serial access page.

More detailed instructions are coming!

Physical Setup

Console server: paley.mayfirst.org

• Port 1: pianeta (asm)
• Port 2: axiom (CritPath)
• Port 3: naomi.mayfirst.org
• Port 4: bufflehead (Riseup)
• Port 5: ottorene.mayfirst.rg
• Port 6: roy.mayfirst.org

Connecting to your serial console

ssh -p PORTNUMBER SERVERNAME-console@b.console.mayfirst.org

Replace PORTNUMBER with 3000 plus the number of your port. For example:

ssh -p 3001 pianeta-console@b.console.mayfirst.org

Hm. Seems as though b.console.mayfirst.org doesn't work - try paley.mayfirst.org instead.

At the moment, we only have password-based auth working.

Connecting to paley as sysadmin

You can also connect directly via paley with:

ssh sysadmin@paley.mayfirst.org
connect direct deviceport 1

To exit from a direction connect, type ctrl-A (that's shift-a).

Creating a new serial line/user

These need to be improved - not sure how to do this via the command line - so far I'm doing this via the web interface at ​https://paley.mayfirst.org.

1. Configure the device by going to Devices -> Device Port. Then select the port you want to configure and click configure
   • Provide a name (after the server name)
   • Check the box that says ssh in
   • Change Baud to 115200
2. Configure the user by doing to User Authentication -> Local/Remote Users and click Add/Edit User
   • Enter a login (servername-console)
   • Create a password
   • Change the listen, data, and clear port settings to just the number of the port they should have access to
   • Enable web access