On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Niklas Kielblock niklas@spiderschwe.in wrote:
Is there much of a difference between setting up Tor on OpenBSD vs. Linux or other Unix(like) systems?
Or is this just about setting up OpenBSD in general, or additional security for relays (disk encryption, memory protection) whose use isn't common on most general servers?
Well, the thing *I* don't feel I have the least idea even where to begin with, with *BSD in general, is reliable automatic installation of security updates for both the base system and the ports. I can figure everything else out once and write it into /etc and be done with it. But if I have to manually monitor for bug fixes in all the installed software, and manually update local source code copies and recompile every time, well, that's three chores that computers are better at than I am.
(Actually, the ports system has blown up in my face often enough that I'm convinced it has fundamental design flaws -- and this was in the much less demanding environment of a development VM. I would be much more comfortable with a BSD that accepted the maxim that there can be only one package manager and nothing may escape its gaze.)
zw