I've read several articles concerning the setup of OpenVPN on OpenBSD. But I've decided to post this one because none I've read address the problem coming from the setuid.

Indeed, to avoid that OpenVPN stays in memory with the root user, you can configure it to setuid to an anther user, usually _openvpn.

Problem, when you close the connection, this user must have the correct rights to set back your networks configuration settings: route, resolv.conf.

Log2table allows you to continuously monitor your logfiles. You can trigger actions when a specific message comes in your audited logfiles or when a specific number of occurrences are present.

In this post I would like to share some feedback concerning the Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server I'm using for this web site.

Fapws is no more updated since 2012 !!! Should I migrate to something better: httpd ?

As you can find in this blog, I'm a fervent user of freeplane to structure tasks, ideas, ...
With this new post on this blog, I will show you how simple it is to have such great tool on an OpenBSD desktop machine. So, you just need to have Xorg running. It can be via a windowing manager (Openbox, lumina, xfce, Gnome, ...)

In my previous post, I've explained how easy it is to install a desktop environment on OpenBSD. I've used the Lumina Desktop Environment because it's a complete desktop environment (file manager, panel, task bar, ...). Moreover Lumina is developed on BSD systems (FreeBSD), it's new and it's a promising desktop environment.

In this post I'll explain how and why I'm using Openbox for my desktops, why Openbox is my preferred window manager, and I will share some tips.

Some persons are amazed to see that OpenBSD is a perfect OS for desktops and laptops. This post will show you how simple it is to install desktop's application on top of OpenBSD

Those days, when you fire-up a new machine, it takes few hours that bad persons are trying to connect to your machine via ssh, try default URL with default passwords, ...

This post will explain how OpenBSD can easily helps you to ban those persons out of your machine for quite a long time.

You are an happy owner of a NAS running on OpenBSD proposing NFS shared drives. And your life is perfect with OpenBSD client (maybe you have read one of my article on that subject). But this idilyc echosystem is in danger when a friend of you comes and connects is brand new Linux laptop on your NFS server.

If you are using an USB keyboard, there is standard tool in OpenBSD which allows you to assign specific commands to each of those keys. No need to install extra package, it's already part of the default OpenBSD install

Let me share my expertise for the best parameters of NFS client on a laptop running OpenBSD.