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Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid
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Lucas introduces experienced UNIX system administrators to the general
management of the OpenBSD operating system. OpenBSD is the most popular of the
BSD operating systems (the Berkeley Software Distribution of UNIX), but it has
had no printed documentation until this book. Lucas has been working with
operating systems based on BSD since the late 1980s. Annotation ©2003 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR

Just reading the Absolute OpenBSD book really isn't enough to learn a lot of the
aspects of the OpenBSD operating system, but the book definitely gives you a
great reference and information to fall back on when learning how to use OpenBSD
or learning something new about it. For me it really wasn't the learning the
feel of Linux/BSD that gave me some trouble in OpenBSD since being familiar with
Slackware Linux helps out for learning the feel, but it was mainly just some of
the major differences between them such as PF vs. IPTables for example. This
book helped me get past the learning curve of starting the OpenBSD, and in the
end the servers of mine running the OS seen an improvement all around in getting
things done. I doubt by just reading this book that a user could know OpenBSD
inside and out without prior GNU/Linux or BSD familiarization, but the book does
a good job at going over the OpenBSD operating system and it's security
features/advantages along with going into detail about just about anything
pertaining to this extremely secure and locked down operating system, also will
allow even veteran OpenBSD users to possibly learn something new. The last great
thing about this book is that it's fairly up to date, but did leave one thing
out that I would have liked to seen in the book; the CARP system that is new
since OpenBSD 3.5. But I guess since CARP just came around since 3.5, it's
understandable that it wasn't really covered in this book. All in all I would
recommend this book to anybody with GNU/Linux or BSD experience and looking to
expand their knowledge into OpenBSD, but for newer users of this type of system
I would recommend also seeking more information from the OpenBSD manual pages or
have a OpenBSD machine on hand for trying things while you read through the
book.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Additional Help
2 Installation Preparations
3 Dedicated Installation
4 Multiboot Installation
5 Post-Install Setup
6 Startup and Booting
7 Managing Users
8 Networking
9 Internet Connections
10 Additional Security Features
11 Basic Kernel Configuration
12 Building Custom Kernels
13 Add-On Software
14 /etc
15 Disk and File System Management
16 Upgrading OpenBSD
17 Basic Packet Filtering
18 More Packet Filtering
19 Managing PF
A i386 Kernel Configuration Choices
B PF Example Configurations
Afterword
Index

Product Details

* ISBN: 1886411999
* ISBN-13: 9781886411999
* Format: Paperback, 489pp
* Publisher: No Starch Press San Francisco, CA

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