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OpenBSD article on SecurityPortal

Posted by Nik on from the strangely-broken-html dept.

wozz writes "Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrator's Security Guide, has written good article which discusses OpenBSD and demonstrates how to set up a simple NAT/IPF gateway box."

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  1. Re:Interesting article... by Foogle · · Score: 2
    Well, I'm going to make an admission here:

    I don't know how to use vi and I run a very tight OpenBSD firewall. Seriously. I only know enough to exit the program. Why? Because I never needed to. When I do programming, I use a GUI editor that does color-coding (yes, that makes me a coding-pussy I guess), and when I'm editing config files I either use Emacs or Pico.

    Yeah, emacs is a little overkill for config files and Pico is kind of stupid, but it works for most purposes and when I'm editing a small file, I don't need all the shortcuts that vi has. I've always intended to learn, but never got around to it.

    I'd like to state again that I really am a very competent Unix sysadmin. I just don't use vi :)

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