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4: <title>OpenBSD</title>
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11: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996 by OpenBSD, Inc.">
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15:
1.31 deraadt 16: <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
17: <br>
1.37 deraadt 18: <img src="head.gif">
1.30 deraadt 19: <br>
20: <small>The picture is Copyright (C) 1996 Shawn Mueller</small>
21: <br>
22: <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
1.1 deraadt 23:
1.18 fn 24: <p>
1.1 deraadt 25: The OpenBSD project involves continuing development of a multiplatform
26: 4.4BSD-based Unix-like operating system.
1.18 fn 27: </p>
1.1 deraadt 28:
29: <p>
1.22 deraadt 30: <ul>
31: <li><a href=#additions>Changes Relative to other *BSD's</a>
32: <li><a href=#curplat>Supported platforms</a>
33: <li><a href=#futplat>New platforms under development</a>
34: <li><a href=#snapshots>Binary snapshots</a>
35: <li><a href=#devel>How we help developers and users</a>
36: <li><a href=goals.html>OpenBSD project goals</a>
37: </ul>
38: </p>
39:
40: <h3><hr><a name=additions>Changes Relative to other *BSD's.</a></h3>
41:
42: <p>
1.1 deraadt 43: OpenBSD looks a lot like NetBSD (which it is derived from, following
44: the 4.4BSD roots), but is now being developed seperately. Good changes
45: from other free operating systems will be merged in (of course, depending
1.24 deraadt 46: on various factors like developer time for example.) OpenBSD tracks
47: NetBSD changes very closely; say anywhere between 2 days to 10 days
48: behind the state of NetBSD-current all the time. Hence you can truly
49: say that OpenBSD is NetBSD <b>PLUS MORE STUFF</b>.
1.18 fn 50: </p>
1.1 deraadt 51:
52: <p>
1.22 deraadt 53: Various additions have been made. This is only a small partial list of
1.25 deraadt 54: the major machine independent changes (ie. it is the most interesting
55: changes or what people ask about most often). Check the specific port
56: you are interested in for further details of that port -- many of them
57: have been extended too.
1.1 deraadt 58: <ul>
1.35 deraadt 59: <li>Many many NetBSD PR's fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)
1.22 deraadt 60: <li>New curses library, including libform, libpanel and libmenu.
1.25 deraadt 61: <li>a termlib library which understands termcap.db, needed for new curses.
62: <li>The FreeBSD ports subsystem was integrated and is usable by you!
1.22 deraadt 63: <li>ipfilter for filtering dangerous packets
64: <li>better ELF support
1.25 deraadt 65: <li>nlist() that understands ELF, ECOFF, and a.out, allowing non-a.out ports
66: to use kvm utilies
1.22 deraadt 67: <li>Verbatim integration of the GNU tools (using a wrapper Makefile)
68: <li>All the pieces needed for cross compilation are in the source tree.
69: <li>Some LKM support in the tree.
70: <li>ATAPI support (should work on all ISA busses)
1.25 deraadt 71: <li>new scsi, md5, pkg_* commands
1.22 deraadt 72: <li>Numerous security related fixes
1.25 deraadt 73: <li>Kerberos and other crypto in the source tree that is exportable
74: <li>Solid YP master, server, and client capabilities.
1.22 deraadt 75: <li>/dev/rnd -- source of random data
1.23 deraadt 76: <li>In-kernel update(8) with an adaptive algorithm
1.25 deraadt 77: <li>Some ddb improvements and extensions
78: <li>Numerous scsi fixes
1.28 deraadt 79: <li>new system calls: rfork(), minherit(), poll().
80: <li>select() that can handle any amount of file descriptors.
1.29 deraadt 81: <li>kernfs extensions
82: <li>ATM support (support for one company's sparc & i386 cards available)
1.33 deraadt 83: <li>Boot kernels with "-c" to edit/enable/disable device configuration tables
1.38 deraadt 84: <li>pax as tar, gnutar is toast
85: <li>Even more security fixes.
1.40 deraadt 86: <li>Accepts FreeBSD MD5 passwords in password maps, soon will be able of
87: generating them too
88: <li>Linux ext2fs and BSD4.4 LFS support being worked on.
1.1 deraadt 89: </ul>
1.18 fn 90: </p>
1.1 deraadt 91:
1.18 fn 92: <h3><hr><a name=curplat>Platforms currently supported.</a></h3>
1.1 deraadt 93:
1.18 fn 94: <p>
1.1 deraadt 95: Note: for some of these platforms, the platform-independent code may
96: be identical to that found in NetBSD because there isn't a specific
97: OpenBSD developer. For other ports the differences are significant.
98: If you find an empty page that means nothing of consequence that is
99: directly port-specific has changed from NetBSD. (Of course there are
100: differences, but they just aren't in the /sys/arch/XXXX directory).
1.18 fn 101: </p>
1.1 deraadt 102:
1.18 fn 103: <p>
1.1 deraadt 104: <dl>
1.41 ! deraadt 105: <dt><a href=alpha.html>Alpha</a> <dd> DEC Alpha-based machines.
! 106: <dt><a href=amiga.html>Amiga</a> <dd> Commodore Amiga.
! 107: <dt><a href=arc.html>ARC</a> <dd> ARC R4000/R4400 machines (including PICA)
! 108: <dt><a href=arm32.html>Arm32</a> <dd> Acorn ARM6+ computers.
! 109: <dt><a href=atari.html>Atari</a> <dd> Atari TT and Falcon models.
! 110: <dt><a href=hp300.html>HP300</a> <dd> Hewlett-Packard HP300/HP400 machines.
1.1 deraadt 111: <dt><a href=i386.html>i386</a> <dd> Your standard run-of-the-mill PC.
112: <dt><a href=mac68k.html>mac68k</a> <dd> Most MC680x0-based Apple Macintosh models.
1.41 ! deraadt 113: <dt><a href=mvme68k.html>MVME68K</a> <dd> Motorola MVME147/16x/17x 68K VME cards.
! 114: <dt><a href=pc532.html>PC532</a> <dd> A rare NS32532-based computer.
! 115: <dt><a href=pmax.html>Pmax</a> <dd> DEC MIPS-based machines.
! 116: <dt><a href=sparc.html>Sparc</a> <dd> Sun's Sun4 and sun4c models (sun4m soon!).
! 117: <dt><a href=sun3.html>Sun3</a> <dd> Sun's sun3 models.
! 118: <dt><a href=vax.html>Vax</a> <dd> DEC's VAX computers.
1.1 deraadt 119: </dl>
1.18 fn 120: </p>
121:
122: <h3><hr><a name=futplat>New platforms under development.</a></h3>
1.1 deraadt 123:
1.18 fn 124: <p>
1.1 deraadt 125: <dl>
1.10 deraadt 126: <dt><a href=mvme88k.html>mvme88k</a> <dd> Motorola MVME18x/19x 88K VME cards
1.25 deraadt 127: <dt><a href=ppc.html>ppc</a> <dd> IBM/Apple/Motorola PowerPC-based machines.
1.1 deraadt 128: </dl>
1.18 fn 129: </p>
1.1 deraadt 130:
131: <p>
132: <h3>Platforms not being developed, but which should be</h3>
1.36 deraadt 133: There is enough free code available to make porting to these
134: machines relatively easy.
1.18 fn 135: </p>
136:
137: <p>
1.1 deraadt 138: <dl>
139: <dt><a href=hppa.html>hppa</a> <dd> Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC HP700/HP800 models.
140: <dt><a href=iris.html>iris</a> <dd> SGI Iris machines.
141: </dl>
1.18 fn 142: </p>
1.1 deraadt 143:
1.26 deraadt 144:
145: <h3><hr><hr><a name=snapshots>Binary Snapshots.</a></h3>
1.18 fn 146:
147: <p>
1.1 deraadt 148: Snapshots will be made available from time to time in the following
1.34 deraadt 149: directories. Please do not fetch binaries directly from
150: <string>cvs.openbsd.org</string>, but instead use one of these
151: mirrors.
1.18 fn 152: </p>
153:
154: <p>
1.1 deraadt 155: <ul>
156: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots>
157: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots</a><br>
158: located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
159: <!-- davem@openbsd.org -->
160: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots>
161: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/</a><br>
162: located in France.
163: <!-- ftpmaint@ftp.ibp.fr -->
164: <li><a href=ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots>
165: ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/</a><br>
166: located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
167: <!-- johns@cs.umr.edu -->
168: </ul>
1.18 fn 169: </p>
170:
171: <p>
1.1 deraadt 172: You should also read the <a href=snapshots.html>
173: general description about OpenBSD snapshots</a>.
1.18 fn 174: </p>
1.1 deraadt 175:
176: <p>
177: The page for each platform (listed above) provides a link to the
178: specific snapshot ftp area, as well as other information you might
179: find neccessary or handy.
1.18 fn 180: </p>
1.1 deraadt 181:
1.18 fn 182: <hr>
183: <h3><a name=devel>How we help developers and users.</a></h3>
184:
185: <p>
1.1 deraadt 186: <dl>
187: <dt><h4>Mailing Lists:</h4>
188: <dd>Some mailing lists are used for the development and use of OpenBSD.
189: In each case, send mail to
190: <a href=mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org>majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>
191: with a message body of "<strong>subscribe mailing-list-name</strong>".
1.18 fn 192:
1.27 deraadt 193: There is a only minimal set of mailing lists intentionally; among
194: other benefits such as more communication it reduces cross-posting.
1.26 deraadt 195: There are no private mailing lists.
196: <p>
1.1 deraadt 197: These are the mailing lists:
198: <dl>
199: <dt><strong>announce</strong>
200: <dd>important announcements. Since this is a low volume list
201: it is excellent for people who just want to follow important events.
202: <dt><strong>tech</strong>
203: <dd>technical discussions
204: <dt><strong>misc</strong>
205: <dd>user questions and answers
206: <dt><strong>source-changes</strong>
207: <dd>automated mailout of CVS source tree changes
1.18 fn 208: </dl>
209:
1.1 deraadt 210: <p>
211: For further assistance, send a message body of "<strong>help</strong>",
212: and you will receive a reply outlining all your options.
1.18 fn 213: </p>
1.1 deraadt 214:
1.26 deraadt 215: </dl>
216:
1.39 deraadt 217: <dl><h4>Bug tracking:</h4>
218: We run GNATS for tracking bugs:
219: <a href=/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl>Click here to enter the bug tracking system.</a>
220: </dl>
221:
1.18 fn 222: <dl><h4>FTP:</h4>
1.1 deraadt 223: <dd>This is a list of currently known ftp servers:<p>
224: <ul>
225: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD>
226: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD</a><br>
227: located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
228: <!-- davem@openbsd.org -->
229: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD>
230: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD</a><br>
231: located in France.
232: <!-- ftpmaint@ftp.ibp.fr -->
233: <li><a href=ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD>
234: ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD</a><br>
235: located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
236: <!-- johns@cs.umr.edu -->
237: </ul>
1.18 fn 238:
1.1 deraadt 239: <p>
1.18 fn 240: The file structure of the FTP servers is as follows:
241: </p>
1.1 deraadt 242:
243: <p>
1.18 fn 244: <strong>
245: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 246: <dt>pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/
247: <dt>pub/OpenBSD/src/
248: </dl>
249: </strong>
1.18 fn 250: </p>
251:
1.1 deraadt 252: <p>
253: If you add a new FTP mirror site, please contact
254: <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com> the FTP maintainer</a>.
1.18 fn 255: </p>
1.1 deraadt 256:
257: <dt><h4>SUP:</h4>
1.21 deraadt 258: <dd>Sorry, unlike other *BSD projects, the SUP service is not
259: available. We do not believe the SUP service to be a good tool for
260: source code access. But read below for the description of the
261: <a href="#anoncvs"><strong>anoncvs</strong> service!</a>
1.1 deraadt 262:
263: <dt><h4>CVS Access:</h4>
1.7 david 264: <dd>CVS is used to manage the OpenBSD source tree. This allows
265: developers to work on a local source tree and commit their changes when
266: ready. Also <strong>anyone</strong> can edit source files on their
267: local machines, and automatically track and merge in any changes made
268: in the OpenBSD CVS repository. Additionally they can easily see the
269: logs of, check out, or "diff" the source files in the OpenBSD source
270: tree.
1.18 fn 271:
1.1 deraadt 272: <p>
1.17 deraadt 273: The latest version of CVS is available at
274: <a href=ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/>Cyclic</a>.
275: Versions earlier than 1.6 are not recommended, and may not work.
1.18 fn 276: </p>
277:
1.17 deraadt 278: <p>
1.18 fn 279: There are two levels of source tree access:
280: </p>
1.1 deraadt 281:
282: <dl>
283: <dt><strong>Read-write access for developers</strong>
284: <dd>Developers who need to commit changes to the source tree must have
285: an account on the OpenBSD machines. Getting this access will be a
286: natural result of working on the sources with other OpenBSD developers.
1.18 fn 287: </dl>
288: </p>
1.1 deraadt 289: The OpenBSD cvs server is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
290: <p>
1.18 fn 291:
292: <dl>
1.21 deraadt 293: <a name="anoncvs">
1.1 deraadt 294: <dt><strong>Read-only access for everyone</strong>
1.5 deraadt 295: <dd>Anyone can access the read-only CVS repositories. These copies
296: of the read-write CVS repository are mirrored often. To use one,
297: set your <strong>CVSROOT</strong> environment variable to one of
298: the following values:
1.1 deraadt 299: <ul>
1.21 deraadt 300: <p>
1.12 deraadt 301: <li><strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong><br>
302: Host also known as <strong>anoncvs.openbsd.org</strong> and
303: <strong>eap.ccrc.wustl.edu</strong>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 304: located at Washington University, St. Louis, mid-west USA.<br>
1.21 deraadt 305: maintained by <a href=mailto:chuck@maria.wustl.edu>Chuck Cranor</a>.<br>
1.5 deraadt 306: protocols: rsh, ssh, ssh port 2022.<br>
1.21 deraadt 307: updated every 4 hours.<br>
308: <p>
1.12 deraadt 309: <li><strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs2.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong><br>
310: Host also known as <strong>hal.cs.umr.edu</strong>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 311: located at University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, mid-west USA.<br>
1.21 deraadt 312: maintained by <a href=mailto:johns@cs.umr.edu>John Stone</a>.<br>
1.12 deraadt 313: protocols: ssh, ssh port 2022 (<strong>NO rsh</strong>).<br>
1.21 deraadt 314: updated every 12 hours.<br>
315: <p>
316: <li><strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.uk.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong><br>
317: Host also known as <strong>dumpty.wonderland.org</strong>.<br>
318: located in London, UK.<br>
319: maintained by <a href=mailto:peter@wonderland.org>Peter Galbavy</a>.<br>
320: protocols: rsh, ssh, ssh port 2022.<br>
321: updated every 12 hours.<br>
1.1 deraadt 322: </ul>
1.21 deraadt 323: <p>
324: You may want to use `traceroute' to find out which server is nearest you.
1.1 deraadt 325: </dl>
1.18 fn 326: </p>
327:
1.1 deraadt 328: <p>
329: <strong>IMPORTANT NOTE:</strong>
330: There are a few issues relating to cryptographic software that everyone
331: should be aware of:
332: <ul>
1.20 deraadt 333: <li>The OpenBSD sources are from Canada.
334: <a href=http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/crypto-export.html>It
335: is legal to export crypto software from Canada to the world.</a>
1.21 deraadt 336: <p>
1.1 deraadt 337: <li>However, if you are outside the USA or Canada, you should not
1.5 deraadt 338: fetch the cryptographic sections of the OpenBSD sources from an
339: anoncvs server located in the USA. The files in question are...
1.1 deraadt 340: <ul>
341: <li>src/kerberosIV/*
342: <li>src/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.c
343: <li>src/lib/libc/crypt/morecrypt.c
344: </ul>
345: Because of the USA ITAR munitions list,
346: crypto software may only be exported to Canada from the USA.
1.21 deraadt 347: <p>
348: <li><strong>At the moment most of the anoncvs servers are in the USA.
349: OpenBSD is looking for people willing to run an anoncvs servers in
350: Europe and other places in the world!</strong>
1.1 deraadt 351: </ul>
1.18 fn 352: </p>
353:
1.1 deraadt 354: <p>
1.5 deraadt 355: A sample use of an anoncvs CVS server would be:
1.1 deraadt 356: <pre>
1.12 deraadt 357: % setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs
1.1 deraadt 358: % cd /tmp
359: % cvs get sparc
360: [copies the files from the repository to your machine]
361: % cvs log sparc/sparc/locore.s
362: [shows the commit log for the chosen file ]
363: % cvs diff -bc -r1.1 -r1.5 sparc/sparc/locore.s
364: [shows the changes between revisions 1.1 and rev 1.5]
365: </pre>
1.18 fn 366: </p>
367:
368: <p>
1.1 deraadt 369: The CVS man page (included with the CVS sources) has much more
1.18 fn 370: information about how CVS can be used.
371: </p>
372:
1.1 deraadt 373: <p>
374: The anoncvs service gives fledgling developers a chance to learn CVS
375: operation and get thoroughly involved in the development process
376: before getting "commit" access -- as a result of showing useful
377: skills and high quality results they will naturally later be given
1.18 fn 378: developer access. As well, people providing patches can create
379: their "diff"s relative to the CVS tree, which will ease integration.
380: </p>
381:
382: <p>
383: The CVS client uses rsh to talk to the CVS server. If some local
384: security measure like a firewall (or imperfect protocol emulators
385: like slirp) prevents you from using rsh, you may be able to use
386: <a href=http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh>ssh</a>
387: instead (if you are running Solaris, there is a kernel bug which
388: causes problems -- contact
389: <a href=mailto:johns@cs.umr.edu>johns@cs.umr.edu</a>
390: for further details). In this case, one sets the environment
391: variable <strong>CVS_RSH</strong> to point to ssh (typically
392: <strong>/usr/local/bin/ssh</strong>). To reduce the performance
393: hit the anoncvs server would take it is recommended (and requested)
394: that you disable encryption. If your local site prevents you from
395: connecting out to port 22 (which ssh defaults to using) use port 2022.
396: </p>
1.5 deraadt 397:
398: <p>
1.1 deraadt 399: Do not be tempted to turn on compression since CVS already compresses.
400: Use something like the following in your <strong>$HOME/.ssh/config</strong>
401: file.
1.18 fn 402: </p>
1.1 deraadt 403: <pre>
1.12 deraadt 404: Host anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org
1.1 deraadt 405: Cipher none
406: Port 2022
407: </pre>
1.18 fn 408:
409: <p>
410: If you wish to be a new anoncvs mirror site, please contact the anoncvs
411: <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>maintainer</a>.
1.16 deraadt 412: Anoncvs mirrors require about 300MB of disk, and use up to 4MB of swap
1.1 deraadt 413: per anoncvs user (assuming the user does a large operation; while smaller
414: operations use fewer resources, anoncvs still makes much more of an
1.18 fn 415: impact than ftp or sup). Such anoncvs machines should have excellent
416: network connectivity for the area they are expected to serve. A
417: <a href=anoncvs.shar>document</a>
418: which describes the setup of anoncvs servers is available.
419: </p>
1.1 deraadt 420:
421: </dl>
422:
423: <hr>
424: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
1.41 ! deraadt 425: <br><small>$OpenBSD: index.html,v 1.40 1996/07/03 07:18:21 deraadt Exp $</small>
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