Re: Removing FUSE would theoretically make a system more secure?

Hello, "> And what are you defending against?" there was/is a great guy that investigated the security of the BSDs, reported a few bugs too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRg2vuwF1hY=youtu.be=1522 that lead to ex.:

Removing FUSE would theoretically make a system more secure?

Hello, afaik if I would remove the lines that contains "FUSE" and "fuse" from /sys/conf/GENERIC and re-compile the kernel, that would mean, there will be no more FUSE support in my kernel after reboot. If so, would this step help to make my system more secure? Ex.: from a future FUSE related

Re: OpenBSD !HTTPS websites - why?

Hello, > hosted on various machines run by different people. I'm not sure if > there's any viable way to handle keys and certificates for this type > of situation. -->> ### letsencrypt: Can one domain have m

Re: Kernel panic with openbsd 6.2

Could it be related to: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/ ? > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 at 9:50 PM > From: "Mik J" > To: Misc > Subject: Kernel panic with openbsd 6.2 >

Re: History documentation

Hey, strange, there is 5.3 in https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/doc/history/ is this still maintained? Many thanks. > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 1:21 PM > From: mazocomp > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: History documentation > > Hi! > Both

OpenBSD !HTTPS websites - why?

Hello, http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/ http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ When can we have HTTPS connection on these websites? What website remains that doesn't have HTTPS yet and related to OpenBSD? Security should be in layers, HTTPS is one additional layer. 70% of the websites

Re: Community-driven OpenBSD tutorials wiki?

imho use the official documentation, not separated wiki. this is the right way. > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 at 8:32 PM > From: "Karel Gardas" > To: "Andreas Thulin" > Cc: "misc@openbsd.org" > Subject: Re: Community-driven

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

atabase applications > to JavaScript in web browsers – to discern to some extent the layout or > contents of protected kernel memory areas." > > "The fix is to separate the kernel's memory completely from user processes > using what's called Kernel Page Table Isolation, or KPTI. At o

Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

tents of protected kernel memory areas." "The fix is to separate the kernel's memory completely from user processes using what's called Kernel Page Table Isolation, or KPTI. At one point, Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines, aka FUCKWIT, was mulled by the Linux kern

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Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

On 9/19/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Security is one of the concerns Leopard will solve. **BLAM** Security is never, ever a completely solved problem. Your world just isn' that simple. Do NOT pass GO. I sincerely hope never to hear

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

Sorry but I am just disagreed with Theo saying that OS X is buggy and insecure. On 9/21/07, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:08:55AM +1000, The One wrote: If anyone can solve security, whether it is with Leopard or in the future, Apple definitely can. In my

Re: FW: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

On 9/21/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone can solve security, whether it is with Leopard or in the future, Apple definitely can. In my opinion, Apple performs 100% in the software field, and 90% in the hardware field, which is due

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

and helpful settings in System Preferences, my Mac would be completely secure! :) By the way, Apple makes sure to release security updates in relatively quick amounts of time! ;) With that in mind, and a stronger Leopard coming soon, what can possibly occur in a negative connotation? -The One On 9/19/07

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

What I meant to say was that Leopard's release will solve every current problem prevailant in OS X Tiger and people's opinions about the Macintosh platform, although their current, so-called opinions have no evidence behind them, whatsoever. Security is one of the concerns Leopard will solve. I

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

Mac user's concerns and PC fanboys idiocy! Even my friend, who uses a PC, is considering the purchase of a Mac. I told him to wait until October, which is very near, to buy one. That way he will not have to pay extra for Leopard! ;) On 9/5/07, Nick Shank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The One wrote

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

But how would it spread? There have been 2 OS X viruses, yet they spread terribly. And Apple has already fixed the issue. :) -The One On 9/2/07, Kennith Mann III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/1/07, The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07 2:53 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Symantec have

Re: filesystems?

sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service.

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

Vista have the above 3 security technologies. First of all, bugs and viruses are two different things. Second, OS X does not need third-party protection. All of the protection is built into the OS! If Vista is so secure, then why does one need to download virus/spyware protection when it can

Re: Pf question

Of Daniel Ouellet Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:16 AM To: Logical One Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Pf question Daniel Ouellet wrote: Logical One wrote: Can someone give me some idea of what RDR and PASS IN/OUT rules I'd need for just a portion of this (say the web servers) and I can figure

Pf question

Just a quick question I hope. I have the following setup: 1 internal interface 1 external interface 3 static routable IP's assigned to external interface (one primary, two aliases) I want to use one IP for NAT and some port redirection to a client system and a web server, another IP for a second

VMWare is b0rked?

Hello, Is anyone still able to run ports/vmware/3 on OpenBSD 3.8 or -current? Even with a valid license, the configuration wizard crashes with Unexpected output - VMware SLAVE PANIC: (UI) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(638):637 VMWare modules were properly loaded. Any idea? -- Frank - my stupid

Re: VMWare is b0rked?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:49:52PM +0059, Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: Even with a valid license, the configuration wizard crashes with Unexpected output - VMware SLAVE PANIC: (UI) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(638):637 It works with a manual configuration, though.

PPTP in 3.7

I am trying to find some current documentation or pointers on how to setup a PPTP connection from my OpenBSD 3.7 firewall to my work VPN running PPTP. I've seen quite a few things, but most are outdated or conflicting in the instructions they give. I have seen some references to the kernel

Re: Mac Mini as Firewall

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:32:32AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: You may want to have a look at the hard drive which is slow and might be a bottleneck... The Mac Mini hard drive can easily be replaced by a 7200 RPM drive. Mine is running with a Hitachi 7K100 drive and it is way faster than

Re: powernow

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:16:10AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: thanks all. there's some newer code in cvs now.. It still hangs for me when changing hw.setperf -- Frank - my stupid blog: http://00f.net L'annuaire des professionnels de la manucure et de la pedicure : http://www.manucure-pro.com

Re: powernow

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:16:31PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: there is a diff from gordon klok in the snapshots that should improve support for k7 and k8 family powernow (cool and quiet). i'd like to know where/if it works, what messages get printed, and if hw.setperf does anything useful. md5

OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

Hello, Just a little note to tell that the just-released OpenOffice.org 2.0 perfectly works on OpenBSD with the Linux emulation (tested with OpenBSD-current). Basic instructions: http://www.00f.net/php/show-article.php/openoffice_on_openbsd Best regards, -- Frank - my stupid blog:

Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD ! 10 years !

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:39:15AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Oct 14 OpenBSD born, Saturday 16:36 MST, 1995 Sorry, but so many of you are uninformed. date: 1995/10/18 08:37:01; author: deraadt; state: Exp; That is when the repository was created. That is the official date. I don't

Re: uvm_mapent_alloc: out of static map entries, check MAX_KMAPENT

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:29:17PM -0400, Brad wrote: Now instead of your system panicing, the kernel will try to allocate more memory for additional map entries. The kernel will print ouf the usual uvm_mapent_alloc: out of static map entries but not panic. Indeed, I upgraded a system that

Re: nfs mounting

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:27:59PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I have just ogtten usb networking up on my Zaurus, and now I'm tryingto get /usr/local, /usr/ports, and /usr/src remotely mounted from my nearby FreeBSD system. I can get the mount done, but I can't affect any files ... for example,

Re: cpuburn: operation not permitted

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:49:02PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: I'd like to load the CPU as much as possible, while at the same time monitoring temperatures, so that I can make sure my computer doesn't overheat. Try running blogbench - http://blogbench.pureftpd.org/ - it brings hardware to its

Re: Choices for Soekris disk drives

. My Net4801 is running 24/7 for one year with a Momentus drive (5400 RPMs) and it is neither slow nor hot. Hitachi also produces drives that are designed to run 24/7 (Eudurastar, now obsoleted by E7K60 and E7K100 drives). My Mac Mini is running with a 7K100 (80 Gb, 7200 RPM, 8 Mb cache) drive

Re: Mini-PC recommendation?

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:28:00PM -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: Take a look at the BioStar iDeq 220K, which uses K8M800 and VT8237... looks like on-board SATA, LAN*, and sound are supported, but useable graphics might be missing. I'm going to buy one. Support for the Via Unichrome

Re: Flash Plugin for Firefox

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:44:01PM -0800, JR Dalrymple wrote: I think if you used Opera for 5 days you'd find it better in EVERY WAY POSSIBLE than Firefox... My 2 cents. I find page loads to be much faster, and nav is 10x faster with gestures and keyboard shortcuts. Except that there is

Re: sleep patterns...

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: Dragonfly have 'rm -I' (ask for confirmation if deleting 3 files or -r) which works very well. Used routinely (e.g. in an alias in login shells), I think it gives better protection than 'rm -i' since the prompt is rare enough

Re: Mini-PC recommendation?

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:57:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This heavily depends on what you use it for. We make good experiences with Geode based systems (like the Soekris 4801) as they are low power devices for router/firewall applications. I also have a Net4801 that performs

Mini-PC recommendation?

What experiences do people have with OpenBSD and a mini-PC like Biostar's or Soltek's? Most interesting ones seems to based upon Nvidia chipsets, but unfortunately they don't seem to be supported by OpenBSD.

Re: human-time limit.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 05:55:25PM +, David Pluoe wrote: Are you gonna add anytime soon a resource limit for human-time, so it would be easier to keep dead locks and any other same kind of type processes in control? httpd would really benefit from it when providing service for many

How to set up a read-only CVS server?

Hello, I'd like to offer a public OpenBSD CVS mirror, but I have no experience with setting up CVS servers, especially public ones. My question may sound obvious: how to set up a read-only CVS server, using the reference CVS or OpenCVS? I found various tutorials and scripts, but

Re: Gigabit Firewall NIC Interrupt Performance Problem

. The system reports 96% time in Interrupts. Try to run bsd.mp even if you only have one processor. IOAPIC helps a lot.

Re: mounting ext3fs via ext2fs

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:25:02PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs Sure, but to be fair, if he cares about his data, it's probably a bad idea to try a 3-years old version of e2fsprogs on a platform that the software was almost never tested on and that refused to mount

Re: mounting ext3fs via ext2fs

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, ext3fs is not supported. ext3 is mostly ext2 with an extra inode to handle the journal. You can usually mount the partition as ext3 or ext2 without any special tweak.

Re: Burn Testing

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:00:20PM +0100, Gaby vanhegan wrote: I have acquired some second-hand dual processor servers with the intention of putting OpenBSD with on them. I have put Debian on one of them and FreeBSD on another, and am pounding them as hard as I can with setiathome to see

Re: Dell HW?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:10:06PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: We have been requested to use Dell HW for some new systems. Any recommended models (RM) for: 1) Gateway/firewall? 2) SAN? It really depends on your exact needs (how many NICs, how many disks, etc). Almost every Dell

Re: Nine months girl begin learning OpenBSD!

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +0200, Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: Mine was also tainted by OpenBSD when she was 4 : http://www.c9x.org/jedi/openbaby.html Ah no, she was 8 months old, sorry :( OpenBSD still lacks software for kids like Tuxpaint or Gcompris, though.

Re: need help: system freezes unexpectedly

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Georg Kremsner wrote: Could you tell me a good alternative to mount_null ? It's for my ftp-share and i don't want to share the whole disks, because not all data is to be shared. Use pure-ftpd and symbolic links.