There are several ways to contact 9srv.net. It will respond to telnet, ssh, or drawterm. For some sort of security (as much as possible over telnet), 9srv will require a challenge/response login. A program called "netkey" will do the challenge/response for you; see below for availability. Alternately, you can ssh in, which will both offer a more secure connection and (should you like) allow you to log in with a password. To get password login, you need to give some config options to your local ssh, generally in ~/.ssh/config. Tal's example (with a name modification) works well:

Host 9srv.net
    ForwardX11 no
    RSAAuthentication yes
    PasswordAuthentication yes
    FallBackToRsh no
    UseRsh no
    #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes   # you want a challenge/response login
    ChallengeResponseAuthentication no     # you want to use a password
    Compression no
    Protocol 1

Finally, you can access it and get a nice graphical interface using drawterm (again, availability below). This will roughly simulate a Plan 9 terminal. If you know how to use that sort of thing, feel free (and encouraged). Otherwise, please use one of the other (likely more familiar) methods described above.

Various versions of netkey are available at http://9srv.net. Several other versions exist (in binary or source forms) in various places - try google or grab http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/netkey.c and compile it (on pretty much any Unix system). Linux and Windows binaries of drawterm are also available at http//9srv.net - source for lots of other platforms is in the Plan 9 distribution. Mail if you'd like a particular version.

Or if you have any other questions or problems, write to 'a'.
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