Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-03 Thread Brian Empson
This sounds interesting. What would you replace krb5 with, if you don't mind me asking? I was contemplating krb5, but the setup and such is a pain for me (because I am not familiar with it). I'll probably wind up rolling something custom with LDAP and YP mappings thrown in. On 1/4/2015 2:26 AM

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-03 Thread David Gwynne
> On 2 Jan 2015, at 9:52 pm, Brian Empson wrote: > > I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network > of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password hashes > transferred across the network. I like that it's built right into the base > insta

Re: Spanish discussion list

2015-01-03 Thread martin
agrquinonez wrote: > Hello > > Is there someone interested having a discussion list in Spanish? > > I have a OBSD server running current (httpd, smtpd, ftp), and i would > like having a discussion list in Spanish, it could have blogs, foro, or > any other related things. For now i have it at ho

is what this guy is saying even anywhere close to reasonable, about ssh everywhere?

2015-01-03 Thread bofh
https://medium.com/@shazow/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platform

Re: Spanish discussion list

2015-01-03 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
When I started learning OpenBSD half a year ago I checked communities and mailing lists and there is a list in Mexico, with something like three emails per month in average. I saw a site of BSD in general as well, with translated articles. Rather than having a Spanish mailing list I would like

Re: Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 20:12, Ted Bullock wrote: > Hey Folks, > > So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while > now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to > malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the > stack. T

Re: Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

2015-01-03 Thread Greg Troxel
teor writes: > Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha (just in the process of being released) has some > changes to queuing behaviour using the KIST algorithm. > > The KIST algorithm keeps the queues inside tor, and makes > prioritisation decisions from there, rather than writing as much as > possible to the OS TCP q

Re: CRYPT rounds vs. performance

2015-01-03 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "whoami toask" on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:18:04 -0500: > *- Does the rounds affect the disk performance, ex.: 1000 vs. 10 000 > 000**? OR it just ONLY affects the time until the password unlocks the > CRYPT device? Yes, unless I'm mistaken, it really only affects how long it takes to g

Re: Amv7 support sunxi SoC router board Lamobo R1 (BPi-R1)?

2015-01-03 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:11:18AM +0800, f5b wrote: > Does Amv7 support sunxi SoC router board Lamobo R1 (BPi-R1)? It's armv7, not amv7. I have a Banana Pi which can load OpenBSD but won't complete the boot. Allwinner A20 still has some issues. There is a topic which discuss some of these issues

Re: Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-03 Thread Miod Vallat
> So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while > now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to > malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the > stack. That said I don't see them being used. > > The promise of them

Re: httpd and ~user directories

2015-01-03 Thread Tor Houghton
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:29:32PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote: > > - User directories are not explicitly supported and have to be > within the chroot - somewhere in /var/www. > > - For example, you can currently create user directories the following way: > > # mkdir /var/www/users/~reyk > # l

Re: Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-03 Thread Ted Bullock
The 2015-01-02, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >So what do you guys think? VLA's, are they good, bad, evil, stupid, all > >of the above? > > alloca() re-invented. > > alloca(3) was considered slightly unsafe, because use if it was rare. Your > mail strikes so widely, feel free to modify a whole system

Re: httpd and ~user directories

2015-01-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Tor Houghton wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if there is a plan to add support for ~user style URL > expansion to the new httpd. > > I've tried fudging it for 'someuser' by adding the following to the default > server within /etc/httpd.conf, but to no

CRYPT rounds vs. performance

2015-01-03 Thread whoami toask
I tested OpenBSD 5.6 in VirtualBox on a RHEL 6.5 Workstation, T410: A few installs, with full disc encryption, only the rounds differ the guests had: 2 GB RAM, fixed 10 GB HDD, same 10 char pwd, i5 CPU M 560: (I placed dots only for better reading, not in the real command) A = bioctl -r

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
It has for me. I misspelled something in a script and cron sent me an email complaining about it. On 01/03/15 09:50, Craig Skinner wrote: Back in the memory of somewhere??? I worked, failed cronjobs would mail their return code if not zero. Something like: "Cron Job false exited with return c

httpd and ~user directories

2015-01-03 Thread Tor Houghton
Hello, I'm wondering if there is a plan to add support for ~user style URL expansion to the new httpd. I've tried fudging it for 'someuser' by adding the following to the default server within /etc/httpd.conf, but to no avail: location "/~someuser/*" { root "/htdocs/user

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2015-01-03 14:02:15, Matthew Weigel wrote: | > No, the behavior he described is accurate: cron(8) sends email if a job > produced output, irrespective of its exit status. > > Google is littered with people trying

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 03 15:50:36, skin...@britvault.co.uk wrote: > Back in the memory of somewhere??? I worked, > failed cronjobs would mail their return code if not zero. > Something like: "Cron Job false exited with return code 1" > I cannae mind if it was Solaris or Linux, or whatever they were using... > Can

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Matthew Weigel
On 1/3/15 1:05 PM, Fred wrote: man 5 crontab not man 1 crontab :~) No, the behavior he described is accurate: cron(8) sends email if a job produced output, irrespective of its exit status. Google is littered with people trying to figure out how to get cron(8) to send email based on exit code.

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-03 Thread John Merriam
On 1/2/2015 2:00 PM, Nathan Wheeler wrote: Try changing the value for the sysctl variable "kern.timecounter.hardware"? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam wrote: Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD

FOSDEM 2015

2015-01-03 Thread Sevan / Venture37
Hi guys, Anyone attending FOSDEM at the end of the month / planning on doing a presentation? Sevan / Venture37

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Fred
On 01/03/15 15:50, Craig Skinner wrote: Back in the memory of somewhere??? I worked, failed cronjobs would mail their return code if not zero. Something like: "Cron Job false exited with return code 1" I cannae mind if it was Solaris or Linux, or whatever they were using... Can OpenBSD's cron d

Re: httpd: multiple addresses for one server

2015-01-03 Thread Geoff Steckel
On 01/03/2015 08:42 AM, Reyk Floeter wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 11:54:46PM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote: Is there any way todo the equivalent of: server "an.example.com" listen on 192.168.2.99 listen on 2001.fefe.1.1::99 ?? It appears that the code in parse.y explicitly forbids thi

Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Craig Skinner
Back in the memory of somewhere??? I worked, failed cronjobs would mail their return code if not zero. Something like: "Cron Job false exited with return code 1" I cannae mind if it was Solaris or Linux, or whatever they were using... Can OpenBSD's cron do that too? Here's some silent & noisey s

Re: setting WiFi txpower with ifconfig

2015-01-03 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:16:01AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-01-03, Alan Corey wrote: > > I'm trying to do some antenna work so I want a weak signal from the > > other side of the basement. So I try stuff like ifconfig athn0 > > txpower 1 and get "ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Inval

Re: httpd: multiple addresses for one server

2015-01-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 11:54:46PM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote: > Is there any way todo the equivalent of: > > server "an.example.com" > listen on 192.168.2.99 > listen on 2001.fefe.1.1::99 > > ?? > It appears that the code in parse.y explicitly forbids this > and the data structures for a

Re: [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion

2015-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-01-01, Miod Vallat wrote: >> > I should have also specified that I didn't just go ahead and enable them >> > because I wasn't sure if they're considered safe. I like abiding by >> > OpenBSD's crypto best practices when possible. >> > >> > Is there any reason why they're disabled by defaul

Re: usmb/FUSE on 5.6

2015-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-12-30, Steven Surdock wrote: > Using the package usmb to mount a share from a Windows 2008R2 server does not > seem reliable. FUSE/usmb dismounts the share after a while (less than 24 > hours) with the following error: > > Dec 30 01:30:07 fileshare /bsd: fuse: device close without umoun

Re: Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion

2015-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-12-31, Libertas wrote: > One possible explanation is that its randomness store gets exhausted. OpenBSD's RNG subsystem doesn't get exhausted like this.

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4->5.5 leaving system horked (now 5.4->5.6)

2015-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-01-01, Damon Getsman wrote: > Running update > /usr/local/bin/xmlcatalog:/usr/lib/libiconv.so.6.0: undefined symbol > '__guard' /usr/local/bin/xmlcatalog:/usr/lib/libiconv.so.6.0: undefined > symbol '__guard' New package glib2-2.40.0p7 will run the following > commands libiconv should be

Re: WLAN roaming?

2015-01-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 06:30:50PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On 01/01/15 17:14, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >My OpenBSD laptop, iwn(4), doesn't roam between my two access points. > >It's a sorry sight when it struggles to push a signal through the > >rebar floor instead of switching over to the

Re: setting WiFi txpower with ifconfig

2015-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-01-03, Alan Corey wrote: > I'm trying to do some antenna work so I want a weak signal from the > other side of the basement. So I try stuff like ifconfig athn0 > txpower 1 and get "ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Invalid argument". > Any number I've tried gives the same thing. If I leave ou