A few neat links.

[n0cmonkey]

Most of this should be HTMLized for you all. No Powerpoint presentations here

According to OpenSSH, more servers are now running OpenSSH over SSH.com's SSH inplementation. Take this with a grain of salt, but with Sun's support, OpenSSH should be around for quite a while.

<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://
http://www.openbsd.org/slides/musess_2002/index.html">Louis Bertrand's </a> presentation on OpenBSD's code auditting. He gave this presentation at MUSESS 2002 (McMaster University Software Engineering Symposium?). Its been an interresting (but not overly informative) read so far (not done). It mentions some of the problems the BSD ftpd has had in its checkered past.

Secure programming how-to

Secure programming How-to from the Shmoo Group

Deadly.org submission. It deals with SAMBA and NT domains with OpenBSD. I wont claim to understand it all, I have very little SAMBA/NT Domain experience and knowledge, but it looks interresting none the less.

Todd Miller's slides from BSDcon 2002. This deals with what we should be looking forward to in OpenBSD 3.1+. I havent gotten a chance to read through these, but Im looking forward to it.

 

[nuttervm]

i just thought i'd add my own comments...

i wish deadly.org had more action. i know most of its users are very smart and talented guys, and because of that they don't talk about some of the more mundane aspects of using openbsd on a daily basis. i dunno, i wish it were more active and slashdotty in nature where they post lots of neat things. personally i'd rather have too many cool things to read than not enough.

as for the bsdcon slides i didnt think they were all that useful. i only read them to see what is planned for obsd 3.1 and it seems like tha majority of things they talk about are additional hardware support (good, but i don't care cuz i dont have any of those badass raid or crypto setups) they hint at improved pf and nat features, but thats to be expected with such a new tool.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< i just thought i'd add my own comments...

i wish deadly.org had more action. i know most of its users are very smart and talented guys, and because of that they don't talk about some of the more mundane aspects of using openbsd on a daily basis. i dunno, i wish it were more active and slashdotty in nature where they post lots of neat things. personally i'd rather have too many cool things to read than not enough. >>



I prefer the minimalism in deadly.org over the trolled slashdot. I agree that there isnt enough traffic on there, but if it got to be like slashdot I wouldnt ever read any of the coments and it would basically be a waste of time for me. Read the mailing list (@misc specifically) if you want more action. There are frequent flame wars (do a search on marc.theaimsgroup.com in the OpenBSD-misc section for ReiserFS ) and plenty of newbie-ish questions to keep you going. I dont read it constantly because of the headbang factor. There is a *GOOD* FAQ for a reason



<< as for the bsdcon slides i didnt think they were all that useful. i only read them to see what is planned for obsd 3.1 and it seems like tha majority of things they talk about are additional hardware support (good, but i don't care cuz i dont have any of those badass raid or crypto setups) they hint at improved pf and nat features, but thats to be expected with such a new tool. >>



I just went through them and I definitely agree. I still think its neat to see what they plan on doing with OpenBSD in the next 6 months, so I think the link fits. Crypto-cards arent that expensive (Ive found them for ~$100USD(I think)) but Im not sure if they would help out SSH sessions and general crypto or "just" vpns.

 

[nuttervm]

A place like slashdot is a good place to learn about neat new toys that we never knew existed before. apropos and google are only good if you know what to look for. (for example: i've been playing with webmin somewhat lately and it seems like a really useful cross-distro tool. it's not perfect yet, but it simplifies management of ALOT of common unix admin tasks. i never really knew it existed or what it did for a long time. i always turned off the service in the beginning and never looked back.)

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< A place like slashdot is a good place to learn about neat new toys that we never knew existed before. apropos and google are only good if you know what to look for. (for example: i've been playing with webmin somewhat lately and it seems like a really useful cross-distro tool. it's not perfect yet, but it simplifies management of ALOT of common unix admin tasks. i never really knew it existed or what it did for a long time. i always turned off the service in the beginning and never looked back.) >>



I read slashdot daily, but I *VERY* rarely read any comments. I almost always read the comments on deadly.org. There are less of them, but the quality is much better (better signal to noise ratio )