Doing Stuff with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and MacOSX
I ran FreeBSD 5.2 for a long time with the default SSHd and then decided to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE. I normally use SecureCRT as my SSH client and I like password authentication. After I upgraded to 5.3, I could no longer logon using password authentication and I had to switch to keyboard interactive. This disallowed me from logging in with sftp from remote locations which really bummed me out. Here is the fix I found.
Although there are some good tutorials on setting VPN connections using IPSec in FreeBSD-to-FreeBSD or OpenBSD-to-OpenBSD configurations, only tutorials on setting FreeBSD-to-OpenBSD IPSec tunnels are at least partly outdated, mostly due to changes introduced in OpenBSD 3.8.
DNS is at the very core of the Internet infrastructure and stands for Domain Name Server. DNS is a distributed, hierarchical database without which we would be typing IP addresses in our browsers instead of something like www.example.com. BIND can serve 1000s of host names and probably 1000s of zones. This how-to is aimed at that kind of installation. I will describe installing, configuring and maintaining BIND on a fresh FreeBSD installation in a secure chroot jail. I will also show how to set up zone files for one zone, multiple zones and a slave for other zones. I will also describe how to maintain your zones in a way that is easy. I will also include some tips. I will not cover caching or forwarding name servers. This document is meant to get you started — it is not meant to be comprehensive.
RANCID monitors a router’s (or more generally a device’s) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes.
This guide will help you install Firefox and Thunderbird. This guide will also explain how to configure Thunderbird to open http, https, and ftp links in Firefox and how to configure Firefox to open mailto links in Thunderbird.
FreeBSD allows for the configuration of a splash screen to replace the text displayed while booting. Often an image is preferred over plain text. Adding a splash screen will not eliminate the text that would have been displayed while booting. This text is always available by running dmesg.
This guide describes the steps for both enabling and disabling anonymous FTP.
This guide explains how to mount a floppy image and/or a CD-Rom ISO using mdconfig.
In this guide I’d like to present a short info on setting own CVS repository. It has been written with an assumption that the repository will be accessed locally and through the SSH connection. Using ssh might require setting $CVS_RSH=ssh environment variable on client system.