bsdtalk020 - Insecure Sharing with NFS

News:

• FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 Beta2
• BSDCan program released

Insecure Sharing with NFS:

• Very insecure, home net behind firewall only!
• NFS server should start portmap, mountd, lockd
• NFS server should add a folder to /etc/exports
• NFS client should mount server:/folder /mnt
• OSX required mount_nfs -P
• Tools: rpcinfo -p server, showmount -e server
• User ID Sync is a problem

bsdtalk019 - Interview with Brian Tiemann

Interview with Brian Tiemann, Author of FreeBSD 6 Unleashed.

bsdtalk018 - Interview with Kirk McKusick

Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley.

bsdtalk017 - Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long.

(Did I call it FreeBSDTalk in the intro? Oops!)

bsdtalk016 - Intro to the vi text editor

News:

• FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1 released.

Introduction to the vi editor.

bsdtalk015 - Interview with PostgreSQL developer Bruce Momjian

Before connecting a new install to the Internet

• Make sure you have a strong root password
• Create a regular user account for your use
• Make sure you have applied all patches and updates
• Understand the purpose for any listening process

Interview with PostgreSQL core developer Bruce Momjian

bsdtalk014 - Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan

A rant on Desktop BSD.

Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan

bsdtalk013 - Interview with Richard Bejtlich

Getting BSD:

• Order CD's online - choose one close to you - buy to support project
• Book Store - Many books come with CDs
• Local Users Group - Free CDs and Installfest
• Download ISO - http, ftp, mirrors, bittorrent
• Net Install CD

Interview with Richard Bejtlich from www.taosecurity.com