Re: For Google+ users: BSD community

2013-11-19 Thread Marko Cupać
I was hoping openbsd misc mailing list would remain free from ads but here we are :( -- Marko Cupać

LDAP TLS/SSL certificates and easy-rsa

2013-11-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
This is not an OpenBSD question but when it comes to competency this group is second to none so I am asking here for help. I am trying to secure my LDAP server (stack OpenBSD ldapd) using starttls method. Since I recently I dealt quite a bit with OpenVPN it occurred to me that easy-rsa could be

SASL auth, SSL via StartTLS vs Kerberized SSL via StartTLS

2013-11-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I am trying to get my head wrapped around securing LDAP so please forgive me this n00b questions. My final goal is to replace our current NFS+NIS with NFS+LDAP+[Kerberos] set up. I see by default OpenLDAP clients are authenticating via SASL. I also see the Kerberos can be used with SASL. Could

Re: LDAP TLS/SSL certificates and easy-rsa

2013-11-19 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 19-11-2013 13:09, Predrag Punosevac escreveu: This is not an OpenBSD question but when it comes to competency this group is second to none so I am asking here for help. I am trying to secure my LDAP server (stack OpenBSD ldapd) using starttls method. Since I recently I dealt quite a bit

Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread zalit
Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in terms of IT expertise? That is, who are

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013, at 09:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Salim Shaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OpenBSD is for the world. You have to ask yourself a few questions. Are you an open source advocate? Do you like the freedom to use an operating system the way you want to? Do you value stability and code correctness in an operating system? Is

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread John Long
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:37:25PM +0100, za...@gmx.com wrote: Are there any significant drawbacks to my adoption of OpenBSD (such as OpenBSD being too technical and too difficult, as compared, say, to Linux distros)? One of the things that makes code good and secure is simplicity. That focus

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 19 16:37:25, za...@gmx.com wrote: I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Carl Trachte
OpenBSD has one of the fastest easiest installs of any operating system out there. The doc is clean and excellent. I've never heard less is more as an OpenBSD philosophy, but it is my philosophy and part of why I like OpenBSD. I'm a geologist who does programming in high level, dynamic

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Jack Woehr
za...@gmx.com wrote: I have decided to adopt OpenBSD and use it for simple day-to-day tasks, as a desktop OS (as I would any popular Linux distribution). Does this choice of mine, and its underlying reasoning, make sense? Yes, it does most of the stuff Linux does, mostly except where

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Chess Griffin
On 19.11.2013 10:37, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Salim Shaw salims...@vfemail.net writes: OpenBSD is for the world. You have to ask yourself a few questions. Are you an open source advocate? Do you like the freedom to use an operating system the way you want to? Do you value stability and code correctness in an operating system? Is security

Re: OpenBSD DNS/Web Infrastructure

2013-11-19 Thread Nicolai
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:08PM -0200, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: One thing I've been doing is using dnscrypt, because my ISP did use transparent dns proxying Nice! I use DNSCurve. Now, I'd like to ask why the openbsd infrastructure servers (www, anoncvs, packages), do not make use

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Michael
Zaf, I am not an IT professional and I run OpenBSD on my pc and laptops. I've used it for years (since 3.0) and am very, very happy. I haven't looked at comparable programs for powerpoint files, so I boot Windows for those. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread eric oyen
There are actually rather a few of us. I have a fairly large IT skillset, but haven't had the opportunity to use them in some time. ALso, I am virtually the only blind user of OpenBSD that I know of (use a remote login as some tools won't work directly from console). I won't harp on that point

Re: OpenBSD DNS/Web Infrastructure

2013-11-19 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 19-11-2013 16:04, Nicolai escreveu: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:08PM -0200, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: One thing I've been doing is using dnscrypt, because my ISP did use transparent dns proxying Nice! I use DNSCurve. First, thank your for your response Nicolai. DNSCurve adds a lot in

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013, Michael wrote: From: Michael ber...@opensuse.us To: misc misc@openbsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:44:29 Subject: Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals? ... I haven't looked at comparable programs for powerpoint files, so I boot Windows for those.

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:37:25 +0100 tarihinde za...@gmx.com yazmýþ: to Linux distros)? Please, give me some advice. If OpenBSD is not for me, I would rather know it sooner than later. I am not an IT Pro :) On the other hand I do run OpenBSD on desktop/laptop. I am quite comfortable with it.

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Gregor Best
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:28:30PM -0700, eric oyen wrote: [...] ALso, I am virtually the only blind user of OpenBSD that I know of [...] Which reminds me... If I recall correctly, one of your issues was the installation procedure being targeted at sighted users. -current has an option for

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Carsten Larsen
Hi Zaf, I am an IT professional myself even though my daily work is far away from the OpenBSD world, which is also the major reason I find OpenBSD attractive. I would say your reasons make good sense and so do your choice. It takes time to learn but if you value the security-by-default

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Fred
On 11/19/13 22:38, Carsten Larsen wrote: Hi Zaf, I am an IT professional myself even though my daily work is far away from the OpenBSD world, which is also the major reason I find OpenBSD attractive. I would say your reasons make good sense and so do your choice. It takes time to learn but if

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Pamela Mosiejczuk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On Nov 19 16:37:25, za...@gmx.com wrote: I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in

OT: OpenBSD website scores high in Google PageSpeed Insight

2013-11-19 Thread Tito Mari Francis Escaño
Check this out: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.openbsd.org If OpenBSD code is very textbook-worthy, how about the high score in Google PageSpeed Insight? Whatever the OpenBSD web development crew is doing, their effort is worth praising. Keep it up guys, your work

npppd l2tp/ipsec - openbsd client

2013-11-19 Thread anon ymous
Hello list! If anyone could shed some light to the following i would be thankful.. i have 2 5.4-current boxes, one acting as an npppd server over ipsec and the other one wishing to be a client. My understanding is that to accomplish that the client needs to use xl2tpd from ports. The problem is

low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
I was recently looking for a low-power small form factor box and was initially thinking of the supermicro SuperServer 5017A-EF, which seemed a good fit. Unfortunately, the fairly new atom SoC in that box isn't currently supported, nor is the crappy not-quite-AHCI Marvell sata controller. So, I'm

Re: OT: OpenBSD website scores high in Google PageSpeed Insight

2013-11-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
That is the score you get when you don't leverage all the latest new cool but heavy shit. Check this out: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.openbsd.org If OpenBSD code is very textbook-worthy, how about the high score in Google PageSpeed Insight? Whatever the

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-19 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:45:46PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: I'm looking at the supermicro X9SCL-F motherboard which has an Intel C202 PCH chipset and 2 gigabit interfaces (Intel 82579LM and 82574L), combined with a Core i3-3220T, stuffed in a 510T-203B chassis. I have lots of X9SCL-F,

Re: Looking for a laptop in the Toronto area

2013-11-19 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 05:33:56PM -0700, Dag Richards wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: But really, those of you are telling him that are MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY. Oh time to help is it? Where to send the cheque? I'm sending $500 so we can get this done. Details are here in case anyone else