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Re: "Hardening" OpenBSD

From: Nick Guenther (kousuegmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 18:55:50 CST


On 11/4/06, STeve Andre' <andresmsu.edu> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:09, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > Just came across this article:
> > http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/services.htm
> >
> > So is he right?
> >
> > -Nick
>
> It seems that this was written to cover OpenBSD 2.9, and revisied
> for 3.0. Keeping old sites like this online without a huge disclaimer
> saying "likely out of date!" seems irresponsible to me.
>
> Look at /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf to see whats going on these days.
> Always look to see what an author claims about whats going on
> in OpenBSD before believing what they say...

Thank you, that makes sense. Then may I ask modified question: was it
true at the time?

-Nick