OpenBSD Journal
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:18:22 GMT
The first paragraph of this book's afterword reads:
“
"You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority
of IT professionals! Congratulations".
”
That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the
book up to that point and has incorporated at least some of the
elements of the configurations it describes into their own
environments.
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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:33:34 GMT
In episode 208 of his bsdtalk podcast, Will Backman talks about how he uses OpenBSD virtual machines to aid in his teaching of a Unix course at the University of Maine, along with details of why he chose it and how it helps round-out his pupils' understanding of different Unixes.
The podcast files (15min, 7MB) are available here:
Ogg: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.ogg ,
MP3: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.mp3
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:09:22 GMT
Daniel M wrote in about the wiconfig script that he wrote to handle moving a laptop between networks:
So, I got tired of doing my little time saving workarounds every time I connected to a wireless network and decided to look for a solution. Several people have posted little wireless scripts here, to misc@ and minor modifications to help simplify and automate the configuration of wireless, but the scripts never seemed to go far enough.
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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:19:57 GMT
As several submitters wrote in to remind us, Following the regular 6-monthly schedule, OpenBSD 5.0 was released on 1 November and is available on CDs and online.