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OpenBSD is a BSD variant with a strong security and code correctness focus.

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I installed OpenBSD 7.7 for the loongson2f. When I try to run pkg_add, it fails because it is looking for the OpenBSD-7.0-pkg.pub key, which doesn't exist in the system. I also tried to install some ...
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This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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I am using OpenBSD 7.7. So I know that procfs is not mounted on /proc, and I need to use sysctl to fetch process maps. But this fails as I am not running as a root user. The secure level is set to 1 ...
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I'm exporting a filesystem from Ubuntu 22.04.5 via /etc/exports: /mnt/exportTest/ 192.168.129.8(rw,async,no_root_squash) and mount this filesystem on OpenBSD 7.7 in /etc/fstab: 192.168.130.2:/mnt/...
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I am trying my hand at learning multibooting, so far my target PC has Antix-Linux ext4 on one partition, FreeBSD UFS on another, ExFat common data on a 3rd, Target PC has been partitioned with GPARTED ...
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I have a hosted VPS running OpenBSD 7.6. It provides services on the private network (vio1) via requests sent from a reverse proxy on that network. The initial networking configuration was created by ...
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I have created software raid5 using mdadm in Debian Linux. Now I want to switch to OpenBSD and interested if I will be able to mount my raid5 under new system?
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OpenBSD 7.6 fresh install Choosing "no" as keyboard encoding during install - working Keyboard connected via KVM Reboot -> login prompt At login prompt; when pressing any key, the system ...
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I've been reading up on some Unix history and got interested into the csh because it's installed by default on OpenBSD. In the csh manpage it had a reference to "W Joy - An Introduction to the C ...
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I am playing with llama.cpp on OpenBSD-current. The program has a --mlock flag to force loading the model into physical memory (i.e. disable mmap). However, running as a non-root user gives warning: ...
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I am using OpenBSD-current. After doas pkg_add fish, I ran chsh -s $(which fish) to change the default shell of my user qys to fish, and it works: $ /usr/bin/ssh magicbane Last login: Wed Aug 21 11:17:...
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I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to you because I am attempting to format and partition a drive in OpenBSD but have been met with the following message: virtual-server# fdisk /dev/sd1c ...
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I hope this message finds you well.  I am writing because I ran the following in my OpenBSD device and am uncertain why it stops running: virtual-server# fdisk -e sd1 Enter 'help' for information sd1:...
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All partitions can have: "rw,nodev,nosuid", only exception is the "/dev" directory (that it cannot have "nodev"). Is there a way that i can partition a new OpenBSD ...
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I installed OpenBSD and quickly realised that the history is not persistent. I'm guessing this is a security related feature. But I don't know why this is a good idea. Anyone?
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I am running OpenBSD on a laptop with X windows starting on f5 vtty via Xenodm login manager. I am unable to start another session of X from different vtty.  xinit or startx fails with Fatal server ...
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I have several interfaces, one of them urndis0 is an external USB modem. I want that only root could use it (i.e send packages through it), while other users would be unable to do so. How to do it?
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It is well known that OpenBSD disables hyper-threading by default. However, htop shows 16 CPUs: 8 online and 8 offline, which takes extra space on the screen and is not very informative. Moreover, ...
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What is a good way to perform a SHA256d hash (double SHA256) on the default terminal of an network isolated OpenBSD fresh install? Here's what I'm doing: echo test > testfile cat testfile | openssl ...
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Or to see which user caused the security notice that /etc/spwd.db was changed?
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I would like to have devices on my network autoconfigure ULA addresses in a prefix generated by https://www.unique-local-ipv6.com/ on my network, which is predominantly IPv6-only. My main router is ...
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I am attempting to install OpenBSD7.4 on an amd64 arch with a 1TB drive. The machine will run an X windows system and need plently of room to store files. I selected "whole disk GPT" at the ...
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It seems OpenBSD's /usr/X11R6 is only written when I upgrade the base system (specifically, the X11 sets). For regular use cases, I want to speed up every read of /usr/X11R6. I wanted to mount the ...
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A crash of some acpi process causes OpenBSD to enter ddb. Is it possible to exit ddb and keep the system running after that?
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I have an OpenBSD "firewall" with relayd, where relayd starts to consume all available memory to the point that the system becomes completely non responsive. This happens when a user starts ...
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I'm trying to boot OpenBSD 7.4 on my desktop with ASUS B650E-i motherboard, but after scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets, it hangs. Is OpenBSD incompatible with hardware this recent?
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The OpenBSD manual page for unveil mentions this in the errors section [E2BIG] The addition of path would exceed the per-process limit for unveiled paths. Which raises the question, what is the ...
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tl;dr how can I substitute a string (i.e. a youtube/streaming url) in an alias such as alias mpvyt='yt-dlp <URL> -o - | mpv - ' ? I live in a mezzanine studio using a M1 macbook for a ...
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I am trying to setup a XTLS Xray server (Version 1.8.3) on an OpenBSD VPS. I am not using any CA issued certificate, instead one generated with xray tls cert to maintain server's anonymity. The server ...
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I'm yak shaving: to compile gcc (especially with libgccjit for ultimately compiling emacs with native-comp) on openbsd 7.4. The reason behind is libgccjit isn't available via pkg_add. Thus I'm trying ...
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I've a below wireguard configuration at the server side [Interface] ListenPort = 51820 PrivateKey = oPernzzF+Kl499z2TMwemZLUN6/e630Q= [Peer] PublicKey = yyhY5Blx+PxCHu/wK7QgiL/veRrXHQ34RmTi//zynVA= ...
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I have successfully set up an OpenBSD system running Wireguard [wg0] which I have designated "the centre" at 192.168.100.1/24. I also have clients successfully running Wireguard, of various ...
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How to increase screen resolution in openbsd if it possible? It is necessary to have a resolution such as 2k or 4k. Tried virtio, qxl there is even smaller than in VGA, checked the maximum resolution ...
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I want to create a ~/.nanorc file with a default backupdir path for each user: set backup set backupdir /var/nanobackup/username Does this have to be customized after I create a new user or does /etc/...
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So I have setup an OpenSMTPD server on my OpenBSD VPS. I have specified the aliases file path and configured action "local_mail" to forward the mails to specific users based on their ...
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So I have created a OpenBSD 7.3 VM in libvirt with the following shell command. virt-install --name openbsd7.3 --os-variant openbsd7.0 \ --virt-type kvm --vcpus 1,maxvcpus=2 --memory 256,maxmemory=...
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I want to restart pf service after some edits in my /etc/pf.conf but rcctl restart pf does not work
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In a recent installation of OpenBSD, I noticed that the smtpd daemon is present. gelima# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND [...] root 90899 0.0 0....
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Server: OpenBSD 6.6 GENERIC#3 I'm recently working on an OpenBSD mailserver, it daily gets hits to not existing accounts, May 31 16:00:23 Makmx01 smtpd[57197]: 05844daf9b176227 smtp failed-command ...
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I am looking to create a *BSD compatible C function like the one below: int fs_ext__swap (const char *from, const char *to) { int res = renameatx_np(AT_FDCWD, from, AT_FDCWD, to, RENAME_SWAP); ...
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I am attempting to install sodium native as an npm package on OpenBSD 7.3 amd64. Aside: As a dependency of Hypercore, Hyperbee and Corestore. This needs node-gyp. Following this, I set the C and C++ ...
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During an OpenBSD install from USB, if one has reached the Pathname to the sets? prompt and the USB stick is not mounted, how does one find the usb device name, mount the usb drive and direct the ...
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I have an extra systemd-boot entry for OpenBSD. $ cat /boot/loader/entries/bsd.conf title OpenBSD efi /extra/bootx64.efi It works and I manage to get into boot shell, The problem is that by default ...
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I have an openbsd server sharing directories through NFS protocol. After I installed a new version of ubuntu on the client, I still mount NFS directories however after a (random) time: nautilus, ls ...
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I want to change the text colour in a shell. I can use tput to get the correct escape codes. For example, echo "$(tput setaf 5)My text$(tput sgr0)" outputs My text in a pink-ish tone. This ...
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On OpenBSD 7.2 stable, I've setup my chroot using this script: #!/bin/ksh dir="/jails/$1" mkdir -p "$dir" tar -C "$dir" -xzf /usr/src/base/base72.tgz tar -C "$dir&...
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I'm planning to launch a server on latest OpenBSD. (Web, cloud and more.) I have to make regular backups of my ffs2 partitions (e. g. using cron). But there are no documentation about this, only man ...
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I am facing the following issue with SD card when trying to install OpenBSD 7.2 on Nanopi R4S (Rockchip RK3399 ARM64 SoC). The same problem as previously described on OpenBSD 7.1 here. sdmmc0: can't ...
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This may be an x-y problem and please feel free to point me in other directions as well. I'm trying to write a login mechanism to dovecot's passdb, using either a Lua plugin or a CheckPassword program....
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I want to configure an OpenBSD (7.2 amd64) system to support multiple users logged in and each having separate X Window sessions, but being able to easily switch whose session is on the terminal. ...
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