Nick Holland wrote:
Tim wrote:
Hello
1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I
want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches
on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can
I later apply the compiled patches to the weak system?
In addition to the previously mentioned release(8) process (also
documented here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release), there is
another thing you could do: run snapshots. They will have all the
security and reliability updates (before they are in -stable, in fact),
but also feature updates.
2. Alot of you seem to use sudo instead of su - when you want to do
something that requires privileges. Why is this? What settings are
you using for sudo?
Took me a while to get interested in sudo, which is unfortunate. Way
cool program.
When I set up an OpenBSD system, one of the first things I do is create
a personal user for myself, put myself in the wheel group, configure
sudo to let wheel users do anything, log in as that user, and disable
root logins. Completely disable. This does a few things...
Is your preferred method for doing so to remove the root user, or set
the shell to nologin, or something else? I like the idea, but I'd
rather not shoot myself in the foot doing it.
