NoMoa's OpenBSD

Use these notes as a guide to learning how to install and get your OpenBSD system up and running. After that, do some more research on the OpenBSD mailing lists, on the Internet and practise safe Computing.

There's a saying: The most dangerous part in a car, is the nut loose behind the wheel (the driver.) These notes are not going to show you how to setup a secure server, and they just might give you suggestions that will make your setup insecure.

Up and Running

1. First Time General Configuration Aids
2. X a friendly Window on Unix - XFree86, KDE, & vnc
3. Multi-booting - Living with another OS on the drive
4. Mail Services - Sendmail, pop, imap

Server Services

1. File & Printer sharing, MS Windows - Samba
2. Database Server - mySQL
3. FTP - Setting up a secure ftp server - ftpd
4. DNS Server - named

Creating Dynamic Web Services

• Web Services - Apache
• PHP3 Server Scripting - php3
• PHP4 Server Scripting - php4
• web Portal - postnuke
• webMail & Group Ware - TWIG
• webMail - IMP

Internet Connectivity

• Firewalls - ipf & ipnat
• Caching/Proxying the 'NET - squid et. al.
• Web Filtering - squid & dansguardian

System Admin

• CVS - concurrent version system
• Kernel Options - configuring that Kern
• User Administration
• RAIDFrame - IDE RAID
• rc.conf - Configuring System Startup
• rcs - Revision Control System
• ssh & ssl - Secured Communications

Works in Progress

• Restricted SuperUser access - sudo
• csh - Basic Shell
• miscellania - What doesn't fit?
• vi Shortcuts pdf, ps

Networking your computers is a big task and networking software can be very expensive to purchase install, configure and maintain. OpenBSD and the Open Source movement provides an opportunity to acquire quality system software for configuring your network and these pages document how we were able to configure OpenBSD to work for us.

OpenBSD provides a number of advantages to schools and organisations struggling with acquiring funds for the ever expanding demand for more computing resources and greater resource sharing. You can read more about the OpenBSD advantages on their website http://www.openbsd.org

Use these pages to assist in your installation, configuration.

Rationale: Few schools have the funds to spend heavily on the expensive hardware, software combinations to provide students with computer literacy skills. With this problem in mind, and a desire to experiment with new software, old hardware, we embarked on downloading, installing, reformatting and reinstalling a bunch of tools from the Internet in the hope to providing students with an exciting learning environment while at the same time limiting the cost blow-outs from buying new hardware and unnecessary software licenses.

Without live Internet connections we are struggling for information/documentation on how to participate in this information revolution. These notes will go a long way to helping find the reference resources on the 'NET, and hopefully answer many of the general questions for installing and maintaining services.