Archive for 'FreeBSD'
Q: How do I add a user to the wheel group in FreeBSD?
A: Beyond simply editting /etc/group with your favorite text editor, adding a user to the wheel group can be achieved in a few different ways. To place a user in the wheel group when her account is first created, you would run $ sudo pw user add jdoe -G wheel Note: The above also [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under Answers, FreeBSD, System Administration.
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Backup Files and Partitions with dd and netcat
This paper walks through various scenarios where dd and netcat can be used to backup files for administrative and forensic purposes. This paper is expected to grow over time and will be updated as time permits. The first example uses OpenBSD 3.9 with nc that comes with base as the server host, and NetBSD 3.99.14 [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Networking, OpenBSD, Papers, System Administration.
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Configuring racoon/ipsec-tools to use x509 Certificates
This paper reviews the process to configure racoon/ipsec-tools to authenticate IPSec communications via x509 certificates. Our example does not cover howto configure a Certificate Authority (CA). This process will be examined in another paper. Our example also assumes the clients are both NetBSD, however the procedures are nearly the same for Linux, FreeBSD and MacOSX [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Networking, Papers, Security.
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