Hey,

Quoting Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>:

> And what praytell would you use a shell service for? Personally I
> prefer just opening up an xterm and doing my work on a machine I am
> responsible for, but that's just me.

Sometimes you want to check connectivity to your own systems from a remote 
system. Or at least that's what I needed an external shell for.

-Yaron

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