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BSDTalk has an almost hour-long interview from BSDCan 2012 with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer(henning@); they talk about recent work on OpenBSD.

As a bonus, both Peter and Henning presented at BSDCan; the slides from Peter's PF tutorial and Henning's preview of upcoming queuing changes are online.

Philip Guenther(guenther@), the man who got this hackathon rolling, takes the time to organize his post-its:

Sometimes you go into a hackathon knowing exactly what you're going to tackle and it all follows the plan. No, wait, that never happens. There's always something that comes up that ends up eating more of the hackathon than you would have expected.

Gilles Chehade(gilles@) gives us a preview of an upcoming OpenSMTPD feature:

During the r2k12 hackathon in Paris, Marc Espie committed SQLite to OpenBSD's base system.

This has the side effect that OpenSMTPD can start using it and while we agreed that we did not want it as a strong dependency, the backends API allows us to make it a soft dependency that can be removed without breaking the daemon if someone *really* does not want SQLite linked.

Today I decided to give it a try and implement a SQLite backend to the map API. About ten minutes later (yes, really ten minutes !), I had a working prototype that was suboptimal and that didn't make use of SQL capabilities.

An hour later, I have a SQLite backend that will use multiple tables with different structures and that can be used to lookup aliases, virtual domains and credentials for authenticated relaying.

gilles@ walks you through it below the fold.

The editors are a bit late to the party, but are pleased to belatedly announce the publication of SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys . From the author, Michael W. Lucas:

Secure Shell (SSH) lets systems administrators securely manage remote systems. But most people only use the bare minimum SSH offers. Used properly, SSH simplifies your job.

You can order the book from the OpenBSD online store, or from a number of other outlets. Mr Lucas explains how, as well as the book, below the fold.