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in default install, OpenBSD never asks you to create user The first-ever boot you can only log in as root This 'reckless (read: diff from linux distro)' insta
by hs 18y ago
in default install, OpenBSD never asks you to create user
The first-ever boot you can only log in as root
This 'reckless (read: diff from linux distro)' installation practice made OpenBSD got 1 point deducted from a linux review article
Despite the root thingy, OpenBSD is "Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!"
- silentbicycle 18y agoWell, yeah, but in the afterboot(8) (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot) man page, the first two points after how to use man and find installation errata are how to deny remote root ssh logins and a note essentially saying, "Make a non-root user and add it to the group 'wheel' for sudo, see below.". Of course, having daemons run as non-root and chrooted/jailed (hello, apache) is just as important. (And yeah, I know this article is supposed to be a joke.)
- hs 18y agolove afterboot(8) i also changed default ssh port to non-22 to prevent most brute force attacks i can't stand GNU/linux folks bashing OpenBSD over trivialities like the root only first-ever boot