Good job done for OpenBSD on laptops

Hello all, This is my first mail to this list, I have a very old HP Probook 4510s slowly dying. I have previously installed FreeBSD on it but got disappointed after several regression YoY and after upgrade like: no usable touchpad anymore, no more ethernet, new VT very buggy. As lots of friends k

OpenBSD Stable(error message)

I should also add that some times i get the following error Error: Libraries in packing-lists in the ports tree and libraries from installed packages don't match on http://man.openbsd.org/bsd.port.mk.5 it says The ports tree and the installed packages are out-of-sync. Mixing library inform

OpenBSD Stable

Hello. Im new here. I installed OpenBSD on my laptop. I used anoncvs to download the stable sources for kernel, xenocara and ports. I rebuild my kernel,system and xenocara and i tried to update various packages to stable. I used /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/out-of-date to get a list of out of date

Re: A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

On 2017-01-17, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > A much safer -- and easier -- approach is to take data > directly from /dev/arandom and encode it as alphanumerics: Yep. > This makes use of the following script 'alphanumeric.encode', which > should be somewhere in $PATH: Or simply: openssl rand -ba

Re: A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

In I just grep some binary and encode it as passwords Alas, this produces high-nonrandom (i.e., relatively easy-to-guess) passwords. A much safer -- and easier -- approach is to take da

Wanted: OpenBSD Help / Tutoring / Mentoring in Montreal or Toronto

Hi. I'm not exactly new to OpenBSD, but there are a few things that I need some help with, and fighting through learning them on my own isn't appealing. I'm looking for some help with: pf, OpenVPN, web hosting, building a robust mail server ... and would expect to pay you for your time. Drop m

Re: Pf on lo0

It doesn't. The "pass in quick on lo0 proto {tcp,udp}from any port 6379 to self port 6379 user luke" works. On Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 23:48 Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:04:48PM +, Luke Small wrote: > > I'm trying to have pf limit sending TCP packets over lo0 from a specifi

Re: A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

I just grep some binary and encode it as passwords Craig Skinner skrev: (17 januari 2017 17:18:29 CET) >Hiya, > >FYI;- some things I found which can stop logging in over serial lines: > >1) using non-ASCII password characters may not work reliably, e.g: > a) Scandinavian/German/etc extra alphab

A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

Hiya, FYI;- some things I found which can stop logging in over serial lines: 1) using non-ASCII password characters may not work reliably, e.g: a) Scandinavian/German/etc extra alphabet characters b) other currency characters;- Euro, British pound, Japanese Yen,.. c) extra maths symbols

OpenIKED client DHCP issue (endpoint to security gateway tunnel; psk auth)

Hi, I am experimenting with the following setup, which allows me to establish a connection from OpenBSD client to OpenIKED server on OpenBSD. Both machines run OpenBSD-stable. --- // Server config $ cat /etc/iked.conf ikev2 "vpnserver at aa.bb.cc.dd" passive esp \  from 0.0.0.0/0 to 0.0.0.0/0 \

Re: spamd: howto blacklist hosts in greylisting mode?

Op Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:26:25 +0100 schreef Harald Dunkel : On 01/16/17 13:58, Boudewijn Dijkstra wrote: Op Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:08:06 +0100 schreef Harald Dunkel : But spamd's blacklisting (without "-b") lacks proper documen- tation. spamd-setup(8) says that it sends blacklist data to spamd, b