Openbsd

FDE on OpenBSD.Amsterdam opinionated VM

       461 words, 3 minutes

I ordered an opinionated VM on OpenBSD Amsterdam . And as any “Cloud” instances, it deserves Full Disk Encryption.

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(sys)Upgrade encrypted OpenBSD 6.5 to 6.6 on Vultr hosting

       226 words, 2 minutes

I run an OpenBSD instance with encrypted root on Vultr VPS since v6.2. It has never been reinstalled. I only used the OpenBSD native upgrade methods. Using 6.5, I used sysupgrade(8). And it went as smooth as expected.

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A NomadBSD look for OpenBSD

       215 words, 2 minutes

The other day, I stumbled upon NomadBSD ; a live system for USB drives. I don’t use FreeBSD… but I liked to look of that “(…) desktop system that works out of the box (…)”. So I decided to give a little make up to my already-running-out-of-the-box OpenBSD.

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Protect the ESXi virtual machines with OpenBSD

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I own a server at Online.net which now runs VMware ESXi free edition. The thing is VMs have to access the Wild Wild Web and provide public services while still being protected. So let’s configure OpenBSD to do so.

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syspatch(8) and /tmp sizing

       170 words, 1 minutes

On my new OpenBSD servers, I decided to use memory filesystem for /tmp. After looking at old servers usage, I decided that 64M of memory space would be enough. # grep mfs /etc/fstab swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=64m 0 0 And that seemed well sized. Until I ran syspatch(8) and got a whole bunch of errors:

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