OpenBSD article on SecurityPortal

wozz writes "Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrator's Security Guide, has written good article which discusses OpenBSD and demonstrates how to set up a simple NAT/IPF gateway box."

Interesting article...

[trance]

The only thing i was curious of is that it talks about the security potential and setting up an openBSD machine to some extent, it even goes on to mention that if you don't know how to navigate bash or to use editors to learn that first... so i'm really wondering who that doesn't know how to use an editor is going to want to set up openbsd as a Firewall? just struck me odd

Peer Pressure

[BadlandZ]

Heh... This is soo weird.

Before I read this (yesterday morning) I had my mind set on reformatting the drive on my NAT at home to get rid of Red Hat 4.2, and finally install something a little newer. I was convinced I was going to go with OpenBSD.

Then, like the dork I can be at times, I was talking to someone on IRC about the idea, and I got talked into _not_ using OpenBSD. So I went with FreeBSD. :-/

Had I read this little blurb yesterday morning, I would have surely had installed OpenBSD insted. I really didn't have any motivation to install one OS over the other, just wanted a *BSD, and to do it quickly. If I'd have know there was a nice page all set up with instructions on exactly what I was going to do using OpenBSD, I am sure that would have been enough to sway my decision.

Re:Interesting article...

[Foogle]

Well, I'm going to make an admission here:

I don't know how to use vi and I run a very tight OpenBSD firewall. Seriously. I only know enough to exit the program. Why? Because I never needed to. When I do programming, I use a GUI editor that does color-coding (yes, that makes me a coding-pussy I guess), and when I'm editing config files I either use Emacs or Pico.

Yeah, emacs is a little overkill for config files and Pico is kind of stupid, but it works for most purposes and when I'm editing a small file, I don't need all the shortcuts that vi has. I've always intended to learn, but never got around to it.

I'd like to state again that I really am a very competent Unix sysadmin. I just don't use vi :)

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Re:

[trance]

well, i simply ment that not knowing any editor. I only know enough of vi of how to edit the file and write the changes and exit. personally i prefure emacs (and you're right, it is an overkill) I was just amused at that statement.

Re:Interesting article...

[moonboy]

Me neither. Emacs for me too.

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