Is OpenBSD secure? https://isopenbsdsecu.re/

Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System.

Hmmm... 🤔 https://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Suggestion-Replace-Perl-with-Lua-in-the-OpenBSD-Base-System-tt380393.html

#system #misc

WP2Static and OpenBSD.

Want to setup a WP2Static-friendly, minimal webserver vs using an off the shelf image? We detail the steps for setting up an optimized environment in OpenBSD, our preferred, secure by default, lightweight and easy to maintain operating system.

https://wp2static.com/developers/webserver-setup/

#wordpress #wp2static

cloud-agent for OpenBSD.

This is a simple OpenBSD-specific agent that aims to handle provisioning and cloud initialization on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. For OpenBSD on Azure, it is a minimal alternative to the WALinuxAgent.

https://github.com/reyk/cloud-agent

#cloud #github

OpenBSD: High-Availability Firewalling.

https://stuarthowlette.me.uk/posts/openbsd-firewall-ha/

#firewall #pf #carp

OpenBSD supremacy, Laslo Hunhold.

A look at recent developments in OpenBSD and a discussion about how to include these advances in suckless tools.

https://suckless.org/conferences/2019/

#dev #video

LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-7247).

We discovered a vulnerability in OpenSMTPD, OpenBSD's mail server. This vulnerability is exploitable since May 2018 (commit a8e222352f, "switch smtpd to new grammar") and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands, as root.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/28/3

#opensmtpd #mail

OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.

https://jcs.org/2017/07/14/matebook

#desktop #hardware

Monitoring OpenBSD using CollectD, InfluxDB and Grafana.

In a “get pretty graphs” mood, I’m looking at what can be done regarding OpenBSD monitoring using the CollectD collector and Grafana dashboard renderer. OpenBSD 6.2-current provides InfluxDB and Grafana packages. A great stack for pretty reportings.

https://www.tumfatig.net/20180220/monitoring-openbsd-using-collectd-influxdb-grafana/

#collectd #influxdb #grafana

Docker on OpenBSD 6.1.

All thanks to VMM/VMD, Alpine Linux, and the latest OpenBSD improvements

https://medium.com/@dave_voutila/docker-on-openbsd-6-1-current-c620513b8110

#docker #vmm #vmd

Sandbox X11 applications on OpenBSD.

https://github.com/morgant/Xsunaba

#x11 #desktop

syspatch module is available in Ansible 2.9+.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/syspatch_module.html

#ansible #syspatch

FOSDEM 2020 videos.

Video recordings from FOSDEM 2020 are now available. The OpenBSD presentations were:

• Giovanni Bechis (giovanni@) - OpenSMTPD over the clouds, the story of an HA setup.
• Florian Obser (florian@) - unwind(8), A privilege-separated, validating DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200211080946

#fosdem #video

SNMP v3 check for OpenBSD systems state monitoring

This script uses SNMPv3 to check memory and swap usage, file system space usage and CPU load average on OpenBSD system. It also shows detailed information about all avaliable file systems, configured NICs, system information about OS and list of running processes.

https://github.com/alexander-naumov/openbsd_snmp3_check

#snmp #monitoring

• Simple dwm status bar for OpenBSD.
• OpenBSD sysinfo / "fetch" script.

#sysinfo #statusbar #desktop