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The 2013 Chuck Yerkes Award Goes To&#...
For those who have joined OpenBSD during the last decade, you\'ve missed
out on someone special, Chuck Yerkes. Chuck contributed a lot to sendmail(8)
and the various OpenBSD
mailing lists. He was always willing to help others and took the
time to provide useful and accurate advice. Chuck also had a vivid sense
of humor ("Shirt, S [...]
BSDNow Episode 012: Collecting SSHell...
In "Episode
012: Collecting SSHells" the media magicians of BSDNow bring us the BSD news of the
week along with their weekly tutorial, "A
guide to SSH and tmux".
OpenBSD is the reference and development platform for both OpenSSH and tmux, so all of the
newest features show up here first. Since they\'re both written [...]
Managing Individual IPsec Tunnels On ...
Philipp Buehler (\"double-p\" or formerly pb@) wrote in to tell us about
how he handles the problem of tearing down a stalled ipsec(4)
connection when running tons of busy and important tunnels.
Since the early days of
ipsec.conf(5) it\'s rather easy to add IPsec connections
throughout the networks, so ipsec.conf(5) keeps ge [...]
FOSDEM 2014 Call For Presentations In...
Benny Siegert (bsiegert<at>gmail<dot>com) wrote the
following announcement for the FOSDEM 2014 Call For Presentations
in the BSD Developer Room:
Hello all,
FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1-2 February, 2014, in Brussels,
Belgium. Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth
and a developer\'s [...]
NYCBSDCon 2014 Date Change – Ca...
OpenBSD developer Brian Callahan (bcallah@) wrote in to say:
The date of NYCBSDCon 2014 has been pushed back one week
to Feb 8, 2014. This was due to flights and hotels being simply too
expensive (the Super Bowl is being held in NY/NJ on Feb 2).
In case you missed it, earlier this week undeadly posted the announcement for t [...]
OpenBSD Developer Videos From AsiaBSD...
The videos from AsiaBSDCon2013
of OpenBSD developer talks have been posted to the bsdconferences youtube
channel.
A playlist
for all of the AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos is available and the papers for the
talks are also available.
Some of the OpenBSD related talks are:
Henning Brauer
(henning@): the surprising complexity [...]
Donation Request: Older Thinkpad X60 ...
Editor\'s Note: Thanks to everyone in the OpenBSD community who donated laptops to
help the developers find and fix the issues with Intel graphics chipsets. Stefan
Sperling (stsp@) just informed us that they have received enough donated laptops
for the developers who needed access to the hardware.
OpenBSD developer, Stefan Sper [...]
vBSDCon with Reyk Floeter (reyk@) and...
At the end of October, very first Verisign vBSDCon was held near Washington D.C. at
the Hyatt hotel in Dulles, Virginia. Reyk Floeter (reyk@) and Henning
Brauer (henning@) were asked to give a joint presentation titled,
"Inspecting
Packets with OpenBSD and pf". Henning wrote in to tell us about
his experience and give us the [...]
Donation Request: Funds for an amd64 ...
Editor\'s Note: I wanted to thank everyone in the OpenBSD community who donated to the effort. Brad has received enough donations to cover his needs. Thanks Again!
In a message to
misc@ (below) one of the OpenBSD developers, Brad Smith (brad@),
asked for help with a getting an amd64 laptop.
I added an entry to want.html as [...]
NYCBSDCon 2014 Call For Papers And Ex...
OpenBSD developer Brian Callahan (bcallah@) wrote in to announce the
NYCBSDCon 2014 Call
For Papers (CFP) and Call For
Exposés (CFE). The NYCBSDCon 2014 conference will
be a day-long event held on February 1, 2014 at Suspenders Restaurant located at
111 Broadway just above Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, New York
City. The [...]
BSDNow Episode 011 Shows Their Ultima...
Allan, Kris, and TJ of
BSDNow have release Episode
011 of their show with a whole bunch of OpenBSD and OpenSSH related
content. In the show and on their site, they\'ve created an "Ultimate OpenBSD
Router" tutorial. The interview this week is with Jamie Hyneman
of the Mythbusters, but in the form of his far more famous and ( [...]
Videos of Absolute OpenBSD author, Mi...
Michael W. Lucas is the author of one of the suggested books about
OpenBSD titled,
"Absolute
OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid". On November 13th,
2013 Michael gave a talk
about OpenBSD to the Michigan User
Group (mug.org). Videos of the talk are now available (links below),
and the description from his blog
reads: [...]
Using OpenBSD With Vagrant and Veewee
Stefan Cocora (stefan.cocora<at>gmail) wrote in to tell us about
using OpenBSD with
vagrant and
veewee.
Vagrant is a ruby-based open source programmatic management interface on
top of virtualization (currently works with virtualbox, with planned
support for kvm and others in future versions). Vagrant integrates with
au [...]
BSDTalk Interview With Henning Brauer
While attending vBSDcon 2013, Will
Backman (bitgeist<at>yahoo<dot>com) of BSDTalk
(also on BSDTalk blog and BSDTalk iTunes)
interviewed Henning Brauer (henning@) about his work on OpenBSD. The (audio) interview is
about thirty minutes long and covers topics like Henning\'s work on pf(4) and the new priority
queuing system. [...]
Automated Mounting of Removable Disks
Alexey Vatchenko (av<at>bsdua<dot>org) wrote in to
tell us about his hotplug-diskmount
port for automated disk mounting.
The hotplug-diskmount
port is a plug-in for the OpenBSD hotplugd(8) daemon to automatically mount removable disks to the
filesystem. It works with any disk types (SD cards, USB mass storage
devices [...]
FYI: Theo de Raadt to speak at MUUG o...
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) will be speaking at Manitoba UNIX User Group
(MUUG) special meeting on November 15, 2013. Information can be
found on the MUUG meetings
page:
Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD project, will be giving an
informal talk about... well, whatever he\'s comfortable talking about. We
expect to hear somethin [...]
OpenBSD adds boot(8) support for keyd...
On i386 and
amd64
boot(8) support has
been added for
keydisk-based
softraid crypto volumes. Undeadly editor Sean Cody
(sean<at>tinfoilhat<dot>ca) did some testing and wrote in to
tell us how to use this feature.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: stsp@cvs.openbsd.org 2013/10/20 07:25:21
Modified f [...]
OpenSSH Security Advisory
An OpenSSH Security Advisory (partially quoted below) was released a few hours ago. Markus Friedl (markus@) found and fixed the issue in this commit. The change has also been back-ported to OpenBSD 5.4, and OpenBSD 5.3 has been upgraded to OpenSSH 6.4 to fix this issue. Errata for OpenBSD 5.4 and OpenBSD 5.3 have been updated, and patches [...]
OpenBSD adds fuse(4) support for addi...
With a tiny commit log message, Sylvestre Gallon (syl@) makes a wonderfully huge change. Of course, there were tons of other commit log messages leading up to enabling
fuse(4) support in OpenBSD, but
this one turned on the lights so to speak. We tracked down Sylvestre to get more
information on his efforts...
CVSROOT: /cvs
Mo [...]
Heads Up: Syntax change for smtpd.con...
Eric Faurot (eric@) has just committed an improved parser and format for the OpenSMTPD configuration file smtpd.conf(5). Since this is a
change to both syntax and behaviour, you must check your configuration prior to
upgrading. There are examples for configuration conversion on
faq/current.html.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: [...]
