Encryption of two disks on the same host

2018-08-05 Thread Thomas Levine
I want to use full disk encryption on all of the disks of a host (two hosts). They can have the same password. How should I do this? 1. A method that I know will work is to make separate CRYPTO discipline softraid devices for each disk, install on one of them; and configure and mount the other

Owner and group of a newly created file

2018-07-01 Thread Thomas Levine
I was just reading about the effect of Set-user-Id and Set-group-Id bits on file creation, as they seem like they would be useful for me. Unfortunately, most of the documentation I have managed to find is related to GNU systems, and this could easily be different in OpenBSD.

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-21 Thread Thomas Levine
I spoke with Todd Weaver at LibrePlanet about running OpenBSD on Purism. I suggested that the company install a bunch of operating systems and post dmesg, but I don't think they have done that yet. If I remember correctly, he also said he would be happy to provide a refurbished laptop to a

Why would you use make show rather than make -V in ports?

2017-12-22 Thread Thomas Levine
The normal port Makefile includes this "show" target. $ grep -A3 ^show: /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk show: .for _s in ${show} @echo ${${_s}:Q} .endfor Why would one use it rather than make -V?