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OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
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A series of commits by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) has modified tar(1) such that its default write format (for archives) is that of pax(1).The message with the final commit captures the gist of the change: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: jca@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/04/16 17:09:35 Modified files: bin/pax : options.c tar.1 Log message: Switch tar(1) write default format to 'pax' Lets ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=front
2024-04-17T00:00:00.0000000
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OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 released!
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OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 has been released. The complete release notes may be found here: https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.7p1 OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 (2024-03-11 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240312065313
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OpenBGPD 8.0 released
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The OpenBSD project has released a new version of OpenBGPD, the OpenBSD Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing daemon, version 8.0.The announcement reads, From: Claudio Jeker <claudio openbsd ! org> Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 16:24:30 +0000 To: openbsd-announce Subject: OpenBGPD 8.0 released We have released OpenBGPD 8.0, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230505054214
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OpenBSD 7.4 Released
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The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.4, the 55 th release of the OpenBSD operating system.. The new release contains a number of innovations and improvements across a number of areas, including Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets [See earlier report].; viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver [See earlier report]. vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20231016130614&ref=upstract.com
2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
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OpenBSD 7.0 released
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Contributed by rueda on 2021-09-20 from the Undeadly-SYNs dept. The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.0 , the project's 51 st release. As usual, the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211014144620
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Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
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In a recent message to the tech mailing list, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarized the state of the new memory protections work.The thread also includes a followup from Otto Moerbeek (otto@) on consequent changes to the memory allocation mechanisms.. Theo writes, From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt openbsd ! org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:10:05 +0000 To: openbsd-tech Subject: More on mimmutable ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120115616
2022-11-19T00:00:00.0000000
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20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024 ...
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Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-04-07 from the 20 years a Puffyist dept. It's been 20 years since the first undeadly.org post appeared. At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April's Fool prank when ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953
2024-04-09T04:52:58.0000000
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About the OpenBSD Journal
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. About the OpenBSD Journal Purpose. The OpenBSD Journal is a site dedicated to providing news and information of interest to members of the OpenBSD community.. The site is run by a small group of volunteers. Although several OpenBSD developers are registered users of the site, and the site receives frequent contributions ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=about
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EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
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Coimbra! dept. EuroBSDCon 2023 has now ended, and slides for many of the OpenBSD developer presentations are now available in the usual place. Video of the presentations can be expected somewhat later. Slides from the tutorial "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" are also available. (Comments are closed)
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230919063240
2023-09-18T00:00:00.0000000
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rpki-client 9.0 released
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Date: 2024-03-03 17:24:06. rpki-client 9.0 has just been released and will be available in the. rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon. It is recommended. that all users update to this version for improved reliability. rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource. Public Key Infrastructure ( RPKI) for Relying ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240304063233
2024-03-03T00:00:00.0000000
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Index for 2021
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2021. January. Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio; Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool!
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=archive;y=2021
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Index for 2022 - undeadly.org
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2022. January. DRM updated; LibreSSL update; A proof of concept: running OpenBSD on the PinePhone; February. New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published
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wiconfig - simplifies the configuration of wireless interfaces
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Hi Matthias--appreciate you peeking at the script and exposing the issue. For what it's worth, the script doesn't automatically connect to the strongest network it finds until you configure a specific network, so you'd have to tell it to connect to `rm /etc/wiconfig`, which is akin to someone typing ifconfig iwi0 nwid "`rm /etc/wiconfig`".
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120113172334
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OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
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OpenSSH 9.3p2 released. Contributed by grey on 2023-07-19 from the It's Wednesday, but you should still patch this now. dept. As announced by Damien Miller: "We've just made an OpenSSH release to fix a remotely exploitable RCE vulnerability in ssh-agent's PKCS#11 support (CVE-2023-38408).
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230719180438
2023-07-19T00:00:00.0000000
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xterm gets unveiled
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With the following commit, Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@) gave xterm(1) some unveil(2) goodness: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: xenocara Changes by: matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/02 03:31:38 Modified files: app/xterm : main.c Log message: Unveil paths needed by xterm at run-time. work with tb@ and deraadt@ Only in (default) case where there are no exec-formatted or exec-selected resources set.
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903092042
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Index for 2023
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2023. January. retguard for amd64 system calls; Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64; Game of Trees 0.80 released. sshd random relinking at boot; Game of Trees milestone; amd64 execute-only committed to -current; Game of Trees 0.82 released.
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Hibernate time reduced
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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) committed a change which significantly reduces hibernate time on machines with larger amounts of RAM:CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/30 03:45:29 Modified files: sys/kern : subr_hibernate.c Log message: increase hibernate writeout speed a little.
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210831050932
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Index for 2020
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2020. January. Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. [Updated] u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work
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Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work
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A low key leak from the ongoing g2k23 hackathon comes the news that soft updates (aka softdep) will, for now, be a no-op on OpenBSD-current.. The commit message by Bob Beck (beck@) reads, . From: Bob Beck <beck cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2023-07-05 15:13:28 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: beck@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/07/05 09:13:28 Modified files: sys/kern : vfs_syscalls.c sys/sys ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554
2023-07-06T00:00:00.0000000
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OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst
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OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst. Date: 2015-10-25. On October 18th 20 years ago the first commits to the OpenBSD project landed in the CVS repository. Today on the anniversary the beastie.pl team invites all readers to a series of interviews that our staff conducted with the project developers. We continue with our eight interview - Ted Unangst. 1.
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undeadly.org/features/2015/10/beastie_pl_interviews/ted-unangst.html
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Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
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Archive Index for. 2024. January. TSO for em(4) committed to -current. OpenBSD workstation hardening tips. DSA removal from OpenSSH. Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide. pinsyscalls(2) working in anger. KMS for Apple silicon machines.
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Undeadly and HTTPS
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> Please don't. > > Just don't do it. > > There is no valid reason to deny access to the public content for people who, one way or another, cannot or don't want to use HTTPS.
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160411201504
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Source
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Source. The files available are: undeadly_allowed_signers Authorized signers of files (in "allowed signers" format).undeadly-src.tar.gz The source code and supporting files for the legacy (Undeadly-specific) system.This should be regarded as background reading for the fwobac source. fwobac/
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undeadly.org/src/
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