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BSD Certification and the lack of training material - a call for participation! (Updated)
Hubertf's Blog - 2012-01-28 15:00:15
As you are aware, there's a BSD Associate Certification available from the BSD Certification group (that I'm a member of, working as subject matter expert for NetBSD). That's good!

There's also is a PDF which lists the BSD Associate (BSDA) examn objectives on 57 pages. That's neccessary!

There is currently no training material available that covers all the examn objectives, and that allows people interested in the certification to start learning. That sucks!

Now that's where I'd like to ask the NetBSD (and actually the whole BSD community) for support: This is not a small task, but I think it would be worthwhile for the whole community to have that available, either in closed (paper/book) or in public (electronic) form.

Any takers?

Update: Jeremy Reed ...


BSD Certification and the lack of training material - a call for participation!
Hubertf's Blog - 2012-01-27 22:30:23
As you are aware, there's a BSD Associate Certification available from the BSD Certification group (that I'm a member of, working as subject matter expert for NetBSD). That's good!

There's also is a PDF which lists the BSD Associate (BSDA) examn objectives on 57 pages. That's neccessary!

There is currently no training material available that covers all the examn objectives, and that allows people interested in the certification to start learning. That sucks!

Now that's where I'd like to ask the NetBSD (and actually the whole BSD community) for support: This is not a small task, but I think it would be worthwhile for the whole community to have that available, either in closed (paper/book) or in public (electronic) form.

Any takers? ...


BSDCan 2012 - call for papers
Hubertf's Blog - 2012-01-27 16:45:25
Watching conference proceedings and publications like magazines, I feel a certain lack of NetBSD presence. Even in events that are BSD-friendly (EuroBSDcon, BSD Magazine come to mind). So here's a friendly reminder to go out on the street and preach the truth, as posted by Dan Langille on netbsd-advocacy@: You have two days left before the deadline!

Dan continues: ``BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May.

NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu.

We are now accepting proposals for talks.

The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue.

If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether ...


Cobalt RestoreCD/RestoreUSB Beta based on NetBSD 5.1.1
Hubertf's Blog - 2012-01-25 01:15:15
Izumi Tsutsui writes on port-cobalt: ``It seems NetBSD 5.1.1 release is pending, but binaries are there and it also contains telnetd vulnerability fix (which is rather important for restorecd), so I'd announce 5.1.1 based NetBSD/cobalt RestoreCD and brandnew RestoreUSB as Beta test for future 5.1.x release:

http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/restore-cd/5.1.1/

restorecd-5.1.1-20120112.iso.gz is a gzipped RestoreCD ISO9660 image as prior releases.

restoreusb-5.1.1-20120112.img.gz is a new "RestoreUSB" image which has almost identical functions with RestoreCD but is intended to be burned into USB memory sticks for USB bootable PCs.

You can write the image using gzip(1) + dd(1) on Unix like OSes, or you can also use "Rawrite32" utility on MS Windows: g4u-help mailing list. Thanks!

Here's a full list of changes:

  • New commands "uploadm...

On the continuing decline of the GPL
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-12-26 22:15:22
Pointed out by Mishka, who found this 451 group's blog posting, I'll let the image speak on itself, even if it does not target NetBSD in particular:

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The timing of security advisories
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-12-24 01:15:12
It's an old debate on when to release a security advisory: It should be released as early as possible to give people a chance to fix, but at the same time the fixing should be in a coordinated way. "Coordinated" means a fair chance for professional sysadmins to deploy a fix during working hours, and not in the middle of the night on a weekend. Or on the day before chistmas eve. But what if there's a pressing reason, maybe an exploit in the wild?

Apparently FreeBSD's telnetd currently has such a problem, and I think it's fair that Colin Percival as the FreeBSD Security Officer did release the advisory, even if it's in a sub-optimal timeframe.

For those NetBSD uses wondering if there's a similar problem in NetBSD's telnetd: Apparenly an unchecked argument can cause memory corruption by a memcpy length parameter overflow in sub-option processing (for terminal type, size etc.). ...


Two new NetBSD Security Advisories: OpenPAM and BIND resolver
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-12-16 01:45:15
The NetBSD Security Officers have released two new security advisories about problems found in 3rd party software that comes bundled with NetBSD's base system, OpenPAM and the BIND resolver.
  • NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-009: BIND resolver DoS:

    Affects pkgsrc, all release branches and -current before 2011-11-09, it's fixed in all branches (current, netbsd-4 and -5) after that date.

    Details from the advisory: ``The pam_start() function of OpenPAM doesn't check the "service" argument. With a relative path it can be tricked into reading a config file from an arbitrary location. NetBSD base utilities pass fixed constant strings. 3rd party programs which run with elevated privileges and allow user chosen strings open an attack vector.''

  • NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-008: OpenP...

OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool
Slashdot.com - 2011-12-08 16:15:05


wiredmikey writes "It's not news that some of the underlying foundations of the DNS protocol are inherently weak, especially what they call the "last mile" — or the part of the internet connection between the client and the ISP. To address this, OpenDNS has released a preview of DNSCrypt, a tool that enables encrypted DNS traffic, much in the same way SSL enables encrypted HTTP traffic. DNSCrypt will stop DNS replay, observation, and timing attacks, as well as Man-in-the-Middle attacks and resolver impersonation attacks. The tool, available already compiled for OS X, will also run on ...

BSDTalk Interview: Jim Brown on BSD Certification
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-12-08 14:45:24
Dru mentioned on Facebook that BSD Talk #209 is out, this time with Jim Brown, one of the key people behind the BSD certification.

BSD Certification covers NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD, and has the goal to offer certification about BSD specific tasks in both Associate and Professional levels.

Based on my personal, most recent experience, certification is a good thing as you can show that you have a full grasp on a topic with all the relevant topics, and that you didn't only learn the few things that are relevant for your current job. Get certified! ...


Tanenbaum: Minix to become NetBSD-compatible
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-11-29 17:55:41
I've found this one via (german language) heise online: Andrew Tanenbaum, operating system researcher and father of the Minix operating system gave an interview to the french LinuxFr.org site. Topics include where Minix is today, and where it will move to in the future.

The latter one is worth quoting in this blog's NetBSD context: ``We are now focused on three things: NetBSD compatibility, embedded systems, and reliability. 3.2.0 will have a lot of headers, libraries, and userland programs take from NetBSD, which is a very stable, mature system. The BSDs are quite popular as you may know. One of them is sold under the brand name "Macintosh" by Apple. [...]

We think NetBSD is a mature stable system. Linux is not nearly as well written and is changing all the time. NetBSD has something ...


Netbooting g4u via PXE
Hubertf's Blog - 2011-11-29 17:55:41
Doing a network based boot with PXE is not exactly hard, but you need some debugging and the right tools in place. If you want to netboot g4u, the NetBSD-based tool for harddisk image cloning via FTP, via PXE, there's a description on how to do Netbooting of g4u via PXE by Mariusz Zynel.

Details include setting up a TFTP server for loading the bootloader and getting DHCP sending out the right files. ...


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