Please note that account registration at the Zaibatsu is currently
closed.  Gopherspace and shell accounts in circumlunar space may be
available from the Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic at
republic.circumlunar.space and/or the The Mare Crisium Soviet
Socialist Regency at soviet.circumlunar.space.  The Republic and
Soviet are independently administered servers, interconnected with
the Zaibatsu via email, an IRC network and a federated BBS.  Get an
account at one of these other servers and you will be part of the
same user community as if you had an account at the Zaibatsu.

The instructions below are preserved for historical interest and in
case account registration is opened again in future.
To request asylum at the Zaibatsu, you need to generate an ssh
keypair to use for sftp access.

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On Unix-based operating systems such as Linux, *BSD or OS X, this can
be performed from the command line by running the command
ssh-keygen(1).  Please read the man page for further details.

By default, this will create two files:

 * ~/.ssh/id_rsa      - your PRIVATE key
 * ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub  - your PUBLIC key

(if you already have another keypair with these names, you may have
specified different names, e.g. id_zaibatsu and id_zaibatsu.pub.

In order for an account to be set up at zaibatsu.circumlunar.space,
you need to provide three things:

 1) Your desired username
 2) The contents of your PUBLIC key file
 3) Whether you'd like to use gopher hosting, Gemini hosting, or both

You can email these things to solderpunk@posteo.net.  Do NOT send
Solderpunk your PRIVATE key file or you will have to delete both key
files and start the process over.

You will be notified via email when your account is ready (this will
usually happen within 72 hours, but this is not a guarantee).   Once
the account is ready, you can access your hosting space with the sftp(1)
command, as follows:

sftp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa username@zaibatsu.circumlunar.space

Replace "username" with your username, and if you specified a
different filename to ssh-keygen then use that instead of id_rsa.

To make your life a little easier, you can put some of these details
into your ~/.ssh/config file (see the ssh_config manpage for details).
The relevant section might look like this:

Host zaibatsu
    Hostname zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
    User your_username
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_your_key_file

With this in place, you can connect with just:

sftp zaibatsu

Once connected, you will be in your home directory.  However, if you
ask sftp to run the "pwd" command, it will tell you you are at "/".
This is because you have been chrooted into your home directory as a
security measure.

If you use "ls", you should find the following in your home directory
by default.

The first is a directory called "gopher", or a directory called "gemini",
or perhaps both.  This is your public gopherspace, or your public Gemini
scapsule, accordingly.  There are many like it, but this one is *yours*.

The second is a text file called "orientation".  Download this to your
disk drive by running:

sftp> get orientation

Then use your preferred software to read it.  The orientation guide
will explain in detail everything you need to know about using the
Zaibatsu server, and give you a brief introduction to setting up a
gopherhole or Gemini capsule.  Contact solderpunk if you require further
assistance.