OpenBSD Administrator's Guide

Table of contents

By Kurt Seifried [email protected], Copyright Kurt Seifried 2002. License is here.


Preface

About this book
Acknowledgements
Contacts and mailing lists
Typographical conventions
Errata and bugs


Introduction to OpenBSD

Preparing to install

Basic installation

Advanced installation

Securing the boot process and console

Basic commands and concepts

Basic user management


Basic limiting users

Limiting user commands
Restricting access to cron and at
Limiting user resources
Monitoring users


Basic system management


Advanced system management

Using a serial console


Basic filesystem management


Advanced filesystem management

Making /etc a separate partition


Basic memory management

Basic network management

Basic firewalling and NAT

Advanced firewalling and NAT

Basic IPSec

Advanced IPSec


Using ports

Downloading and installing the ports tree
Finding things in ports
Building and installing things from ports
Installing precompiled packages
Security issues in ports
Bandwidth saving techniques for ports


Upgrading the Kernel and OS




System recovery


Basic conversion from Linux

Device names and conventions


Advanced conversion from Linux

 


Common errors

Boot errors


Other resources

Man pages
Web sites
FAQs and guides
Mailing lists
UseNet news


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Last updated on 15/4/2002

Copyright Kurt Seifried 2002 [email protected]