krw@ adventures at p2k19
Next up in the series of p2k19 reports is Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
tl;dr – Great City, Great Coffee, Great Hacking. I already miss Bucharest.
Read more…
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby
Our next p2k19 report comes from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@):
While I had originally planned to attend the entire hackathon,
circumstances changed and I was only able to make it there for a few
days. Still, I was able to get some work done.
Read …
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Landry Beuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing
Fresh from the just concluded p2k19 hackathon comes this report from Landry breuil (landry@), who writes:
This year having been a bit hectic with work and house renovation, i was
really planning to enjoy bucarest as the first real break of the y…
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing
Fresh from the just concluded p2k19 hackathon comes this report from Landry breuil (landry@), who writes:
This year having been a bit hectic with work and house renovation, i was
really planning to enjoy bucarest as the first real break of the y…
In Other BSDs for 2019/11/16
Some commercial stuff this week, even. A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via) HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via) This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu) FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product. rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD. Any games that can be recommended …
Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan
Fresh from Bucharest is this story from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) with his experience from p2k19:
Since I attend OpenBSD hackathons, I hear stories about how crazy are
the ports hackathons. So I try my best to look like a porter in order
to experie…
OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base
Damien Miller (djm@)
posted to tech@:
Hi,
I just committed all the dependencies for OpenSSH security key (U2F)
support to base and tweaked OpenSSH to use them directly. This means
there will be no additional configuration hoops to jump throug…
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest by Marc Espie (espie@)
The first p2k19 hackathon report comes from Marc Espie (espie@), who writes:
I already came to Bucharest a year ago for EuroBSDcon, but I welcomed the
chance at spending more time here, especially at a hackathon organized
by Paul, who is such a g…
HEADS UP: ntpd changing
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted
to tech@:
The ntpd options -s and -S are going to be removed soon and at startup
with print:
-s option no longer works and will be removed soon.
Please reconfigure to use constraints or trusted servers…
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration
DNSSEC validation has been enabled in the default
unbound.conf(5)
in -current.
The relevant commits were
from
Job Snijders (job@)
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: job@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/11/07 05:49:45
Modified files:
etc …
In Other BSDs for 2019/11/09
Aaaand back to normal. FreeBSD 12.1 is released. ChiBUG is meeting November 12th. I’ll post a reminder. U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD. Excellent news. (via) What can software authors do to help Linux distributions and BSDs package their software? Linux VS open source UNIX. (via) Stabilization of the ptrace(2) threads continued. Valuable News – 2019/11/04. …
U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD
In a
message
to the openssh-unix-dev mailing list,
Damien Miller (djm@) wrote:
[…]
As of this morning, OpenSSH now has experimental U2F/FIDO support, with
U2F being added as a new key type "sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com"
…
EuroBSDCon 2019 videos available
The EuroBSDCon channel at YouTube now has the EuroBSDCon 2019 videos online.
One excellent way to start is with Patricia Aas’ excellent keynote Embedded Ethics and just go on, but you could also go directly to the OpenBSD related talks:
Marc…
New openbsdstore available with 6.6 T-shirts
A new OpenBSD store has been started, for those looking for OpenBSD swag now that the project no longer produces CDs. If you like the artwork that comes with the releases, this is a great way to support it. Quoting the about page:
We believe art he…
OpenBSD 6.6 Released
In a
message
to relevant mailing lists,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) announced that the
OpenBSD project’s 47th release,
OpenBSD 6.6,
is now available from
mirror sites
worldwide.
Rather than reproducing here the full list of new features,
we re…
OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted to tech@:
Sometime in the last week OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits (*) upon all
our repositories since starting at 1995/10/18 08:37:01 Canada/Mountain.
That’s a lot of commits by a lot of amazing people.
(*) b…
sysupgrade(8) Added to OpenBSD 6.5
In a move bound to be greeted with great enthusiasm, the newly-released
Patch 012
for OpenBSD 6.5 adds
sysupgrade(8)
to the system.
Readers are encouraged to show their appreciation by
donating!
OpenBSD moving towards 6.6
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
has changed
newvers.sh
to
6.6:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/10/01 11:19:04
Modified files:
sys/conf : newvers.sh
Log message:
stop this -current stuff
Wh…
Support for the sgi platform discontinued
Support for
the sgi hardware platform
has been discontinued:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: www
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/09/25 05:28:00
Modified files:
. : plat.html
Log message:
discontinue sgi.
(On the o3…
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28
Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up. KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs. Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via) ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases. Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the …