Written by Bill and last updated on 01/01/1970 - [ freebsd ]

This guide is designed to help you install FreeBSD and setup qmail with mail filtering abilities. I designed my own qmail guide for a few reasons. First, there really isn't much out there when you look for this type of install from the ports system. Second, I have a vpopmail patch that allows creation of Custom Maildirs. I have been using a custom Maildir structure for about a year and a half now with no issues. The vpopmail skel patch allows you to patch vpopmail so you can make your own custom directories. If you create a user with just the normal vpopmail install, you get a default Maildir with new, tmp and cur in it which really doesn't allow you to do too much with filtering and the like. If you create a new user and vpopmail has been patched with the skel patch, the user's maildir is copied from the ~vpopmail/skel dir. If you really think about it, you can pretty much add your own maildrop recipe into the skel dir along with the .qmail file. If you add the qmailadmin into the mix, you or your users can turn on or off the spam filtering at leisure. If you really know what you're doing, this can open up a whole new world with vpopmail.

Written by Bill and last updated on 10/27/2006 - [ freebsd ]

This walkthrough will root your users to their home directory for those users you don't want browsing all over your FreeBSD machine. I would suggest doing this at your console or possibly running a script to kill all the running sshds and then starting the sshd2 deamon.

Written by Bill and last updated on 10/05/2006 - [ freebsd ]

There may be times you would want to run perl scripts as non-root users. This offers more security to your system and this guide will show you how to enable perl to use setuid.

Written by Bill and last updated on 10/05/2006 - [ freebsd ]

There may be two main reasons as to why you would want a custom kernel on your system: 1) You want to add some functionality to your system such as audio support, or 2) you may want to remove some unused drivers to conserve memory. Either way, making a custom kernel will help your machine to be a faster box rather than using the GENERIC kernel.