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Janči, a master's student of bioinformatics, was seated near the back of a large classroom. This was a simple compulsory elective course geared toward biologists. The professor was currently walking the class through their latest assignment. "We'll need to connect to some Linux servers," he announced.

The other students seated nearby traded blank stares. They were all Mac and Windows users with no IT background. Meanwhile Janči, a veteran Linux user, started feeling a little smug. An easy A was at hand.

"First," the professor continued, "you'll need a private key."

After the professor had explained a few details, the first WTF came in the form of a bulk email sent to the entire class. The private key was attached. The username was the email address it was sent to.

What do you call the exact opposite of a private key? Janči wondered, bemused.

"You'll also need to download an application to help you log in," the professor said. "I recommend MobaXterm."

As he detailed the process of visiting the SSH client website to download the software, Janči tuned out. He didn't need such hand-holding. He accessed OpenSSH, tried connecting ...

... and failed.

Meanwhile, everyone around him was logging in no problem.

Janči's face burned with embarrassment at this second WTF. His first instinct was to blame the deprecated cryptography of the server. He spent most of the remaining lecture time searching for a way to allow his SSH to use SSH-DSS. (It turned out to be supported the whole time, despite the warnings he received.)

Janči then tried to re-download the "private" key and adjust the SSH config file several times. He cycled through different possible usernames associated with his university email account.

No dice.

He was the only person in the class who hadn't yet logged into the server. Not even the professor was able to help him, since he was using Linux.

Embarrassment and frustration mounted. An hour later, out of ideas, Janči fell back to downloading MobaXterm and running it inside Wine.

It didn't work.

The professor offered him a spare Windows box. "Here, try this one."

Janči booted it up, copied the "private" key to the new machine ... and still couldn't sign in.

Now, this was getting suspicious.

The lecture ended. A friend of Janči's hung back while the rest of the students filed out. "Why don't you try logging in with my credentials instead of yours?" she asked.

Janči was up for anything at that point.

It worked. On his own machine, on the Windows box, everywhere.

With that lead in mind, Janči opened the server's /etc/passwd file to look at all the usernames. He noticed that, unlike everyone else, his username and email address didn't match.

His university used Microsoft emails. Everyone had several address aliases, and they could also use whatever email address they liked in the system, even a personal one.

Janči had chosen to use a school email in the form of <number>@uni.uni. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu server didn't like the idea of user being named just <number>, so it had renamed it to user<number>. Some script for generating SSH configuration had probably failed from there, because Janči also discovered that his user home directory was missing a .ssh directory and known_hosts file.

Unfortunately, due to restricted access, he wasn't able to copy them from any of his classmates. In the end, he could connect to the server as any of his classmates, but not as himself.

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