Questions tagged [openbsd]
OpenBSD is a BSD variant with a strong security and code correctness focus.
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How do you use fluxbox in OpenBSD
I recently installed OpenBSD on my sparc64 workstation and I wanted to use fluxbox for my desktop environment. When I install it and try to start it it gives a error saying "couldn't connect to ...
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Can't Install firefox in OpenBSD/sparc64
I just installed OpenBSD on a sparc64 based pc but when I try to do pkg_add -v firefox it says can't find firefox. I also tried installing nano, which installed fine, so why can't it find firefox.
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Is it possible to make a user that can only log in using su?
I want to make a user that can only be accessed using su.
I can see in the login.conf man page there are different authentication types, and one of the example types is su, but I am unable to discover ...
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I get taken back to the xeondm login screen after trying to login on OpenBSD
I am trying to start MWM by default. I edited the $HOME/.xsession script to make OpenBSD boot with MWM by default instead of FVWM, After I rebooted OpenBSD. I tried to login with xenodm, and all it ...
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What are the daemon user and group for?
I am configuring a web server on OpenBSD and I can see in /var/www/ that all directories except /var/www/cache/ are root:daemon.
I then see that the user for the daemon group is daemon
$ grep daemon /...
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After OpenBSD finished installing, it does not recognize my mouse
I recently installed OpenBSD, and after it got installed. I got a message saying: wsmouse0 detached.
Yet the keyboard still works fine. How can I solve this issue? I have a USB mouse by the way for ...
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Limit SSH to a range of IP
I work with OpenBSD and I want to limit the port 22 for all user who have an IP between 192.168.42.40 - 192.168.42.60. But I don't know how to do this.
I need to modify the packet filter ?
(SSH is on ...
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Server httpd(OpenBSD), doesn't work server.key
I am trying different ways, but ssl certificate doesn't working
BSD# curl -vi https://192.168.1.21:443
* Trying 192.168.1.21:443...
* Connected to 192.168.1.21 (192.168.1....
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What is the difference between unbound and unwind?
Reading the man pages of OpenBSD gives me
unwind - validating DNS resolver
and
unbound - Unbound DNS validating resolver 1.11.0
which begs the question - what is the difference between these ...
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Configuring printer on OpenBSD
I am trying to connect my home printer to my OpenBSD laptop via USB and with XSane program. When I launch Xsane I am getting error as "No device found".
It works fine with Debian system that ...
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Linux equivalent of these BSD-style routes
I'm following these instructions for setting up a (kernel-space) Wireguard VPN on OpenBSD. In my particular case, the VPN server is running OpenBSD and is confirmed to be working correctly (as one of ...
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OpenBSD 6.7 Wireguard instructions fail
Wireguard setup instructions don't work for me on my OpenBSD 6.7 machine:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD foobar 6.7 GENERIC.MP#3 amd64
$ sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 6.7 (GENERIC.MP) #3: Thu Jul 9 07:...
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Does *BSD have the ability to encrypt a system partition with full disk encryption?
Does FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD have an encryption feature like Linux's dm-crypt?
And will it work for a system partition?
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Configuring networking with QEMU for OpenBSD 6.7 guest on Debian Buster host
I have a host machine running Debian 10 and am using QEMU to run an OpenBSD 6.7 guest (amd64). My current invocation of QEMU is as follows:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -drive if=virtio,file=my_image....
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How come I can't use `\` to continue a line in crontab?
The acme-client(1) man page suggests the following cron entry:
~ * * * * acme-client example.com && \
rcctl reload httpd
When I add to crontab the edit is not saved when I use ...
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How to use interface name instead of IP addresss on IPFW?
add 04000 allow IP from 192.168.1.10 to ca-vancouver.privateinternetaccess.com keep-state
I want to change to epair0b because I want to avoid hardcoded IP address and I would like to use DHCP instead
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Can Postgres data_directory be Moved to Block Storage on OpenBSD?
Trying to figure out if we can switch Operating System from Linux (Ubuntu) to OpenBSD.
Moving the Postgres data_directory to the Block Storage works flawlessly on Ubuntu/Debian
e.g: https://www....
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OpenBSD installation script does not recognise SATA-connected drives
My question is one that has been posted here before but merits a new thread since the solution given did not work for me. During the OpenBSD installation, only one device is recognized as a candidate ...
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How to pkg_* on openbsd with multiple repos?
When multiple repos are in $PKG_PATH pkg* seems to get confused. It will only check one for packages so if it finds v1.0 in the first repo it stops, even if the second has v1.2 which is newer. This ...
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Permission denied opening socket / connection with rsync in OpenBSD
I recently was trying to retrieve a copy of UCE (spam) sender IPs from uceprotect.net with rsync, but I encountered the following errors:
[user@host ucedata]$ rsync -rzv rsync-mirrors.uceprotect.net::...
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What is the canonical way to have wifi devices reconnect?
On openbsd6.7 I was able to get the urtwn driver to work easily, by setting up a /etc/hostname.urtwn0. I can connect to different APs defined by separate join statements.
However, when I suspend/...
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Start network connections last on boot
Running OpenBSD 6.7 as my perimeter device with a number of services installed to monitor the network.
The problem is netstart runs early in the boot process resulting in the interfaces being ...
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Routing on all interfaces
I recently got a small single board computer to replace the horrible router provided by my ISP.
Following this example:
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html
em0 is my WAN, em1 is an AP, and ...
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OpenBSD: downloading and installing php packages
How do I download and install packages from the command line in OpenBSD?
As an example, in Fedora, to download the php pecl-memcached package from the command line, I just do this:
dnf install php ...
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mount_null / mount --bind equivalent for OpenBSD
What's the most efficient way of making an already mounted directory available within a chroot'ed environment (e.g. webserver)?
I know that Linux offers the mount --bind option and other BSD variants ...
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Mail sent with mutt is not dkim signed
On OpenBSD 6.6 I'm sending mail with mutt and it isn't being DKIM signed.
I am new to OpenBSD, mutt, and rspamd, so any help much appreciated.
$ cat ~/.muttrc
set editor = nano
set pager = lynx
set ...
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OpenBSD ipsec routing
I have an OpenBSD VM that I wish to connect to my OpenBSD home router with ipsec. The objective is to have a secure channel between my home network and the VM.
So I have the following ike conf' on ...
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Where is DHCP data stored on OpenBSD?
I'm currently testing with some DHCP and I'm wondering how I can verify if options like "option host-name" or "option domain-name-servers" really worked on the client machine (OBSD 6.6). Where does it ...
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How do I install OpenBSD/ARM in qemu?
Could you share a specific command line & which file I need to download to make this work?
If you have a link to an OpenBSD/ARM image that is already installed (and a commandline to run it), that ...
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Compaq CQ58 with RT3290 and with OpenBsd 6.6 do not want to switch on WiFi card
I have Compaq CQ58 with combo wireless card RT3290.
OpenBSD 6.6.
Wifi key F12 lights orange.
This command:
ifconfig ral0 scan
says, besides other info, that status: no network
and that cannot ...
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OpenBSD Unix Wifi Wireless Networking IDIMAX N150 USB Wifi dongle issue
I was able to successfully install OpenBSD 6.6 on a Dell Latitude e6400 laptop I have, that I installed an SSD drive on. It works great with Ethernet LAN with cat6 cable to my internet router, no ...
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OpenBSD Unix USB Install, BIOS Recognizes hard drive, but OpenBSD Install does not recognize
I have a Dell Latitude e6400 laptop, that I am trying to install on from a USB drive, the BIOS Recognizes the hard drive and also lists the hard drive size, but during install from USB, OpenBSD is ...
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OpenBSD: Where to seek for the source of programs in the base system?
In OpenBSD, I use pkg_info -E $(which [cmd]) to be supplied with the name of the package/port to the executable/command [cmd]. Having this information I can further look for the source code to the ...
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OpenBSD how to Create node for wd1 block device?
On OpenBSD, during install:
Via dmesg | grep wd1 -A1 I know this information:
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <VBOX HARDDISK>
wd1 128-sector PIO, LBA, 450MB, 922496 sectors
however I cannot ...
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OpenBSD Unix 6.6 Gnome 3.2 Side Effect Issue on Window Manager
I have several older Dell laptops and have been putting them to good use by installing Linux and BSD Unix. I wanted to learn OpenBSD Unix so I installed it on a Dell Vostro 1500 I have with 2Ghz Intel ...
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Bounds in awk regular expression do not work on OpenBSD
This awk expression prints inet 34.45 as expected on OpenBSD:
echo "inet 34.45" | awk '/inet [0-9]+\./ { print }'
However, when I replace the + with a bound {1,3}, I am not getting any match:
echo "...
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Packaging binary release on OpenBSD
I have a tiny application written in go and I've cross-compiled it to various operating systems.
Currently my Makefile generates myapp-VERSION-OS-CPUARCH.tar.gz packages to be used as a source ...
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Historically, what was the first OpenBSD remote hole?
On:
https://www.openbsd.org/
I can see:
Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long
time!
I understand the concept what are they pointing out, since other OSes have ...
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Is there anything similar to CrystalDiskMark for UNIX?
If you're shopping for an SSD, you've surely seen one of those screenshots from CrystalDiskMark with a few green squares, and the 2x4 matrix with results of doing read/write tests for the given ...
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How to make a custom OpenBSD distribution?
Goal
Create a custom distro that comes with a desktop environment and other desktop utilities, general applications, custom ~/.xsession, etc.
Basically, a simple image for usage with OpenBSD ...
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How change wifi network on OpenBSD
I'm connected to the xyz wifi network. I want change to kzq network. I edit the /etc/hostname.if file and I add join kzq without wpa password because it's an open network. Then I run sh /etc/netstart ...
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polkit on OpenBSD
I use xfce which came with a polkit action org.xfce.thunar.policy in /usr/local/share/polkit-1/actions/.
This action allow to run thunar as root if you can give the root password.
On debian with ...
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ssh-keygen and its -Z option on OpenBSD and on RHEL
I'm following along a rather good text about SSH certificates written for RHEL 6 and openssh-5.3p1-94.el6 (which makes it about 10 years old) while trying to mimic the examples on my OpenBSD-current ...
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OpenBSD pf - redirect all DNS queries to local DNS server
Our little home network:
ISP -> ROUTER -> SWITCH -> WIFI APs -> CLIENTS
ROUTER: OpenBSD 6.5, giving DHCP+fwing internet to the WIFI APs. Based on https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html#pf and ...
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How to get terminal window to show username@remotedevice as title when logging in remotely to OpenBSD?
I am new to OpenBSD and logging in using Linux Mint with OpenSSH.
The current behaviour is when logged in to the the remote device, my terminal's title changes to username@localdevice, but I want it ...
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No gcc executable after pkg_add gcc on OpenBSD
I installed gcc from packages on OpenBSD 6.5
# pkg_add gcc-8.3.0
gcc related files are installed at /usr/local/lib/, but no gcc executable is found.
# gcc
-bash: gcc: command not found
(I'm aware ...
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cut now has a line length limitation?
I had a script, with a 25,000 character input that I was using 'cut' on:
...\n" | cut -c -$LENGTH
I didn't use it that frequently, but it was working (oh, about a year or two ago). Granted, my ...
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How to connect to WIFI in OpenBSD?
Question: How to connect to WIFI on OpenBSD?
Currently I have tried:
# ifconfig iwn0 nwid <network-name> wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk <network-name> <my-passphrase>`
But it responds with ...
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How to start Lumina by default? [OpenBSD]
Question: How do I configure OpenBSD to start Lumina by default instead of OpenBSD's default desktop environment?
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How to change window managers?
I have been trying to change my window manager from the default cwm to something different (probably OpenBox).
Reading some articles online, it appears the configuration would be in the $HOME/....
