Table of Contents

Up and Running

1. First Time Install Aids - OpenBSD & GNU
   • Introduction
   • Configuring Removable Storage Devices (CDs, Zip Drives, etc.)
   • Adding additional Packages
   • Adding a New User with root access privileges
   • Changing details of a User
   • Configuring bash 
   • Afterboot Install
     • Date. Setting the Date & Time
     • TimeZone. Setting the Time Zone
     • Network. Setting the basic network services.
     • Daily, Weekly, Monthly Scripts
     • Root Backup
     • Cron - scheduled commands
   • Miscellaneous
   • Making it easier to find files
   • Booting in Single User Mode
   • Moving Directories Safely
   • General Tools I install
2. X a friendly Window on Unix - XFree86, KDE, & vnc
   • Introduction
   • Installing needed X-Files
   • Allowing X to run (kernel config)
   • Determining your System Configuration
   • Configuring the base X environment
     • Quick Troubleshoot - mouse not working
   • Booting OpenBSD straight into X
   • KDE X window manager and OpenBSD 2.7
     • Setting KDE as default desktop
   • vnc Remote Administration - in X11
3. Multibooting - Living with another OS on the drive
   • Introduction
   • Partitioning the Hard Disk
   • Installing OpenBSD - fdisk
     • disklabel
   • Installing OS Boot Selector
   • OS-BS 2.0Beta8
   • mattsoft Boot Manager
   • Partition Magic 5.0
   • NTFS - Windows NT 4 / 2000 and OpenBSD
   • Relative Reference
4. Mail Services - Sendmail, pop, imap
   • Introduction
   • Process Queued Mail and Recieve incoming Mail
     • the inetd (alternative)
   • Processing pop requests
     • using the IMAP Toolkit (alternative)
   • Sendmail Configuration
     • who am i?
     • slow startup - gethostbyname() blocks
     • Relaying Access Denied
   • Simple Diagnostics
     • What's in the QUEUE
     • Debug and Verbose Mode
     • Looking up MX Records

Server Services

1. File & Printer sharing, MS Windows - Samba
   • Introduction
   • Installing the Packaged Version
   • Starting samba with each reboot
   • Starting through inetd
   • Testing the installation
   • SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool
   • Adding Users
   • Rolling your own Samba Server
   • Co-habiting with Windows NT PDC
   • Adding the Samba Server to the Primary Domain Controller
   • Joining the Samba server to the Primary Domain Controller
   • Updating the /etc/samba/smb.conf
   • Using stunnel to secure SWAT password communications
2. Database Server - mySQL
   • Introduction
   • Installing
   • Testing the Installation
   • Starting MySQL
   • Stopping MySQL
   • Usability Assistance Tip
   • Related Reference
3. FTP - Setting up a secure ftp server - ftpd
   • Introduction
   • Configure ftp Login
   • Configure Directory ownership, permissions
   • Restrict User Access
   • Enable ftpd through /etc/rc.conf
4. DNS Server - named
• Introduction
• Preliminary Information
• Starting named
• named.boot - Configuring DNS
• resolv.conf - name resolution path
• db.mydomain.com.zone - Authoritative forward lookup
• db.mydomain.com.rev - Authoritative reverse name lookup
• db.localhost.zone - The special localhost ip
• db.localhost.rev - reverse name lookup on localhost
• db.all-zero.rev - reverse name lookup on 0.0.0.0 address
• db.all-one.rev - reverse name lookup no 255.255.255.255 address
• root.cache

Creating Dynamic Web Services

1. Web Services - Apache
   • Introduction
   • Setting Apache to start every time the system is started/restarted
   • Manually starting Apache
   • Testing that it works
   • Setting some status configurations
   • Creating User personal web pages
     • Restart apache
     • Create public_html in user accounts
     • Access user accounts with the URL form http://server-name/~user-id/
   • Securing the Site with SSL
2. Server Scripting PHP - php3
   • Introduction
   • Installing php3
   • compiling from source
   • configuring apache
   • testing the installation
3. Horde/PHPLib - horde, PHPLib
   • Introduction
   • Installing
   • Configuring horde/PHPLib
   • Configuring Apache
   • Testing the horde installation
   • Testing the PHPLib installation
4. webMail - IMP
   • Introduction
   • Pre-requisites
   • Installing
   • Configuring IMP
   • Securing the Installation
5. Customizing IMP
   • Introduction
   • The Cover Page
   • The Page Title
6. Web - Group Ware - TWIG
   • Introduction
   • Requirements
   • Extracting the Distribution Files
   • Configuring Apache
   • Configuring MySQL
   • Configuring TWIG
   • Basic configuration
   • PHPLib conflict problems
   • Testing TWIG
   • Related References

Works in Progress

• Firewalls - Keeping the bad sorts out - ipf & ipnat
• Restricted SuperUser access - sudo
• ssh & ssl - Secured Communications
  • Introduction
  • Self-signed Certificates
  • Remote Access with ssh
    • Configuring ssh
  • Configuring sshd
  • Copying a file through SSH
• Web Caching/Proxying - squid
  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Starting Squid
  • Transparent Proxy
  • Access Controls (ACLS)
  • Cache Utilisation Analysis Tools