Openbsd

Back to the sea ; the relational database management system (RDBMS), episode VI

       191 words, 1 minutes

At least my Web 2.0 application (aka WordPress) requires a database system. I’m used to using MySQL and that’s what I installed on my OpenBSD server.

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Back to the sea ; the Lightweight Directory (LDAP), episode V

       947 words, 5 minutes

OpenBSD 4.8 ships with a home-made LDAP daemon called ldapd. According to the man page, “ldapd does not fully work yet” ; but for basic authentication directory, it seems to work just fine.

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Back to the sea ; the Certificate Authority (CA), episode IV

       1129 words, 6 minutes

OpenBSD FAQ and manpages is full of “how to generate your self-signed certificate”. That’s OK. But I you get several services, as I’m gonna get, this means you’ll have to deploy every certificate to every client so that they trust them. Creating your own CA enables you to only deploy the CA file to your client. Then, they will trust any certificate that were signed by it. Plus, it’s fun :p

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Back to the sea ; the Domain Name Service (DNS), episode III

       532 words, 3 minutes

Here’s the directions to configure a dual-view DNS on OpenBSD. I’ll be using BIND 9.4.2-P2 as shipped with 4.8.

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Back to the sea ; the OpenBSD installation, episode II

       768 words, 4 minutes

OpenBSD is really easy to install. It’s not shinning, but it asks for a few questions and only takes a couple of minutes to get a working system.

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