On 05/06, shadrock uhuru wrote:
hi everyone
when upgrading my laptop which is encrypted with a keydisk
i assume that i boot the 6.5 kernel which will be on a usb stick with
the keydisk inserted,
will the hard drive still be decrypted and upgraded,
yes
also will the encryption step need to be r
On 04/05, Michael Lam wrote:
Are you able to have 2 clients connected at the same time? When I tried
that (I am using mschap) whenever the 2nd client connects the 1st one's
traffic will not go through anymore (it stays connected but no traffic
can go through).
I've noticed that, if my 2 ikedv2
On 08/05, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
Hi everyone,
I thought I would share a couple scripts I wrote to block ads and bad
hosts. I have found them to increase web-browsing speed and reduce
battery consumption, especially on mobile devices. They also help
reduce pop ups and fake sites, especially o
On 06/19/18 03:37, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
I have 1500EUR for a new laptop. What would you buy with it?
On 06/19, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
Have you considered one of the Librem laptops by Purism? I hear they're
quite nice, and are running coreboot straight from the factory.
They run OpenBS
Under 6.2 my laptop would hang a few hours after waking from sleep, and
it was my own damn fault for running an unsupported config (Lenovo x200
+ coreboot + SeaBIOS). But after upgrading to 6.3 I haven't been able to
get it to hang and I find myself back in 'it just works' land which is
so, so
Hi everybody. I used to host my own email and I have ambitions to give
it another try. I prefer to keep my email on my home server if I can,
but I use Comcast and they block port 25. So, I thought I'd try setting
up an IKEDv2 based VPN between my home network (including my email
server at home)
You might get the error "'\' must be configured" when trying to
autoinstall, if your autodisklabel layout is only minimums, and the
minimums add up to more than the total available disk size. So, you
know, don't do that.
Putting this out there to save someone some troubleshooting time when
th
I've got a 27T drive, single partition, about half full. Combination of
big files and lots of small ones. 32G of ECC RAM. Hardware RAID5 ATM
though I've used software RAID5 on the same array and that was good too.
I keep offline backups of everything. I think it takes around an hour to
fsck, b
unison?
On 05/24, Asbel Kiprop wrote:
Yeah, i was using it for some time and i wonder if there is some more text
document based solution.
2017-05-24 20:33 GMT+03:00 Ulises M. Alvarez :
On 24/05/17 12:22, Asbel Kiprop wrote:
Hello, friends. Is there is some solution (in OpenBSD packages, lik
Yah, I ran into that too, syntax for that sorta stuff changed, now its
like this:
bind -T copy-mode-vi v send -X begin-selection
On 04/20, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Not really a question but one thing I noticed after upgrading dozen or
so OpenBSD servers from 6.0 to 6.1 per official documentati
Hi everyone! I like to play with all the cool toys the devs give us,
because, you know, they are there, and it helps me learn. One of my
favorite walls to bang my head against is automatically connecting my
(OpenBSD-stable) laptop to the internet and automatically keeping it
connected as I open
Interesting. I may have a similar problem and was planning to post about
it soon...in my case I've been playing with rdomains, using PF to NAT
between them, and ikedv2. I've found that when I use ikedv2 to layer
IPSEC on top of my NATing traffic between rdomains, TCP passes fine, UDP
does not, t
rror
4" I'm not sure what to make of, wondering if NTP sync will
fix or not.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Scott Bonds wrote:
By popular demand (ok, just 2 people asked)...now with instructions on how
to do this yourself: https://ggr.com/how-to-install
-coreboot-on-your-x200.html
n Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:14:39AM GMT, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
sc...@ggr.com (Scott Bonds), 2017.02.28 (Tue) 02:21 (CET):
> I'm polling using xrandr to check whether a new display was plugged
> in, so I can run a script to switch to it,
On 03/01, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
sc...@ggr.com (Scott Bonds), 2017.02.28 (Tue) 02:21 (CET):
I'm polling using xrandr to check whether a new display was plugged
in, so I can run a script to switch to it, i.e. plug in an external
VGA monitor and it lights up automatically, unplug it and my l
Everyone once in a while, while I'm actively using the laptop, it just...locks
up: what's on the screen stops changing, the hard drive light is pegged on with
no fluctuation, moving the mouse doesn't move the pointer, typing doesn't
effect anything, I cannot switch to a different tty (CTRL-ALT-
I'm polling using xrandr to check whether a new display was plugged in, so I
can run a script to switch to it, i.e. plug in an external VGA monitor and it
lights up automatically, unplug it and my laptop automatically switches back to
using its internal display. But, every time I run xrandr my
By popular demand (ok, just 2 people asked)...now with instructions on how to
do this yourself: https://ggr.com/how-to-install-coreboot-on-your-x200.html
On 02/27, Scott Bonds wrote:
I flashed a Lenovo x200 with Coreboot with Intel microcode enabled, ME removed,
and the gigabit ethernet
I flashed a Lenovo x200 with Coreboot with Intel microcode enabled, ME removed,
and the gigabit ethernet firmware from libreboot. Everything seems to work.
Unlike with Libreboot, which comes with a Grub2 payload, Coreboot uses the
SeaBIOS payload by default and it can boot an encrypted OpenBSD
wow, that's awesome!
I've been rocking a athn lately but I'll swap back to iwm to help test
On 12/10, Stefan Sperling wrote:
The net80211 stack and iwm(4) driver now support MIMO in -current.
In my own testing, things work just fine. But I have gotten used
to breaking other people's wifi withou
I've started a stab at it. My x200 is in pieces at the moment and I want to
retest my instructions before I submit a PR, so it may be a couple weeks.
On 10/05, Leah Rowe wrote:
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Hash: SHA256
Thanks. Can you forward my message to the appropriate list, if it
has
I've got a WWAN card that required a bunch of fiddling with pppd under 5.9 to
get online. I upgraded to 6.0 and my pppd dialup script stopped working. I soon
discovered I had a new NIC: umb0. A man page read and an ifconfig command
later, I've got a working WWAN-based connection to the internet
unanswered) question about the error message I'm
running into, implying that chainloader command might be broken for
Libreboot. So there's that.
On 09/26, Scott Bonds wrote:
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad x200 running OpenBSD 6.0 with an unencrypted
drive. I flashed it to use Libreboot and t
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad x200 running OpenBSD 6.0 with an unencrypted
drive. I flashed it to use Libreboot and then booted it up by running
this on the GRUB2 command line:
# kopenbsd -r sd0a (ahci0,openbsd1)/bsd
# boot
I haven't tested it extensively, but at first blush things seem to be
working
Thank you! Congratulations on another great release. I can't wait to get
this deployed on all my boxes. :) Much love to everyone that
contributed--I'm consistently amazed by the level of awesome that is
OpenBSD and how it just keeps getting better.
On 09/01, Theo de Raadt wrote:
-
I use pyenv to install multiple versions of python under a user account
on my OpenBSD boxes.
https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv
On 08/16, Jay Patel wrote:
Oh.. okay.. That was my concern. Thanks.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Stuart Henderson
wrote:
On 2016-08-16, Jay Patel wrote:
> On Tue,
I count myself among those who have taken a stab at automating wifi
roaming in userland:
https://github.com/bonds/winot
To be clear, winot is far, far from production ready, its more of an
excuse for me to play with Haskell at this point. But I've started
adding to the Further Reading and Alt
Take a look at par2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
On 07/20, Miles Keaton wrote:
Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, like all
old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my family to have
access to when I die.
Really it's more of a file archive.
Just wanted to say good luck and I'm rooting for you! I've got a
Macbook8,1 that would be better with OpenBSD running most days instead
of OS X. :)
On 06/16, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
Sorry if this is an obvious one but I've been all over the FAQ, read the
makefiles, etc. and cannot for the life
I thought I'd try installing OpenBSD on an Intel Compute Stick using
install.fs and the UEFI boot support. Worked like a charm. :) Dmesg
below.
I plan on building a wireless access point with it using a USB athn
adapter (since the built in iwm doesn't support AP mode). I might use
the Sticks to re
I thought I was being clever by doing all of:
* disabling root's password
* disabling SSH login by root
* setting root's shell to /sbin/nologin
su stopped working, but I don't use su, or so I thought, until I
noticed my locate.database was always 41B aka empty. Turns out
/etc/weekly *does* use su
Thanks for sharing Remi! I've been thinking about getting one of
those, I'm glad to hear it runs OpenBSD ok. Now if Dell would just add
an internal WWAN option. :)
On 01/14, Remi Locherer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read tedu@'s post about OpenBSD on laptops and thought a little report
> about running -cu
I am working on a script that keeps me connected to wifi all the time
and I thought it might be neat to have it notice when the signal is
weak and look for another station with a different BSSID but the same
SSID to connect to and connect to it with minimal interruption.
ifconfig let's me notice th
fixed as of the 2014-12-04 snapshot, thanks to Brad Smith
Excerpts from Scott Bonds's message of 2014-12-01 14:18:44 -0800:
> I am trying to install 5.6-release on a MacbookAir6,1. There are long (5
> to 10 minute) pauses that seem to happen whenever the OS accesses the
> built in hard drive. I tr
> uhub1: intr status=0
> uhub1: intr status=0
> ugen0 at uhub2 port 3 "Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller" rev
> 2.00/0.99 addr 7
> uhub1: port 4 status=0x0100 change=0x
> uhub1: port 5 status=0x0101 change=0x0001
> uhidev2 at uhub1 port 5 configuration 1
status=0x0100 change=0x0000
uhub1: port 8 status=0x0100 change=0x
uhub0: port 2 status=0x0500 change=0x
vscsi0 at root
scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on sd1a (4c16713a536188bf.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
clock: unknown CMOS layo
While investigating the slow hard drive on my MacbookAir6,1, I decided
to take a working installation of -current (20141201 snapshot) on a USB
drive and try booting it on the MBA6,1. I discovered that booting off of
a usb drive (with a full install, i.e. bsd.mp NOT bsd.rd) hangs once the
boot reach
I am trying to install 5.6-release on a MacbookAir6,1. There are long (5
to 10 minute) pauses that seem to happen whenever the OS accesses the
built in hard drive. I tried the 20141201 snapshot as well and observed
the same pauses. The pauses/slowness is so long that after 4 days of
waiting, I wasn
Earlier you asked for the usbdevs and lsusb outputs on the version of
the OS that was *not* recognizing the usb devices at all, that is to
say, 5.6-release. I got those today. Note that a urtwn is plugged into
the left USB port while I was running these commands. Here they are:
** 5.6-release usbd
Excerpts from Martin Pieuchot's message of 2014-11-20 02:30:44 -0800:
> I don't know how it works in Apple machines but other people reported
> such weird thing with machine having an xhci(4)/ehci(4) controller.
> Telling the BIOS to "deactivate" USB 3 support made their ports work
> again with eh
I'm sorry for creating some confusion. My original email was about the
MacbookAir5,1 external USB ports not working on 5.6-release, when they
worked fine under 5.5-stable, so the subject is descriptive, at least as
the discussion started.
Subsequently I emailed to say that I have also tried a snap
A few people suggest I try current. I tried it and the ports show up
again, this time as XHCI. They are unreliable, as others have noted:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141614729913281&w=2
I use this laptop as my main workstation, so I'm going to retreat back
to 5.5-stable for now, but I'll se
I've been running 5.5 on my MacbookAir5,1 for some time. I'm trying to
upgrade to 5.6 but I'm not having much luck so far.
A fresh install off a USB CD drive (ISOSTICK) proceeds until its time to
copy the packages from the USB CD drive, but at that point no CD drive
is visible.
Next I tried insta
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:25:04PM -0400, System Administrator wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2014 at 12:23, Scott Bonds wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:35:47PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > > > Hi S
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:13:14PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Scott Bonds wrote:
>
> > Understood. I'm the only user on this box and I did not run mknod,
> > touch, or MAKEDEV. I'm wondering whether something nefarious is goin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:35:47PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > Scott Bonds wrote on Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:38:10AM -0700:
> >
> >> My daily insecurity email on one of my box
My daily insecurity email on one of my boxes says this:
Block device changes:
brw-r- 1 root operator 0, 1 Aug 16 17:44:40 2014 /dev/wd0b
brw-r- 1 root operator 0, 1 Sep 8 18:43:56 2014 /dev/wd0b
On all my other (openbsd) boxes, the swap partition has the same date as
all the other block
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:16:38AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:53:34AM +0200, Gregor Best wrote:
> > I'm trying to get recording from the mic input of my laptop working, but
> > have
> > not have success so far. I'm using a thinkpad laptop
> > with an azalia device
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 03:24:08AM -0400, Todd Zimmermann wrote:
> Just off the top my head a few links:
> www.team-cymru.org
> https://www.dshield.org
> http://emergingthreats.net/
> https://www.grc.com/dns/dns.htm
> I stumbled upon malheur awhile back. No idea what to do with it, but
> it compi
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:34:21AM -0400, Todd Zimmermann wrote:
> Lots of good stuff in base and the ports collection. mtree can be
> extended to check file integrity for anything you've modified and
> other local stuff (something I need to do).
thanks, mtree is neat, glad to know about it
secur
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:50:55AM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote:
> While a long way from perfect, tools such as "chkrootkit" and "rkhunter"
> might shed some light on your situation.
> As Giancarlo said, check every machine that's closely interconnected, not
> just the one compromised server you've n
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:42:32AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> Don't forget to check your own machine, not just your OpenBSD server.
> It's more often than not the point of origin of the attack. If your
> machine is compromised, reinstalling your server won't do anything,
> since they'll re
exploit, they could probably still
use it on the newly separated 'everything else' box. Anyway, I clearly
have a lot to learn about security.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:23:54PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 17:54, Scott Bonds wrote:
>
> > So...h
I run an OpenBSD 5.5-stable amd64 server at home. Email, web, etc. Today
I was doing some maintenance and I found my way to /etc/rc.local. When I
opened it I saw this:
$ cat rc.local
# $OpenBSD: rc.local,v 1.44 2011/04/22 06:08:14 ajacoutot Exp $
# Site-specific startup actions, daemons,
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