@black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

@scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up.

That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go.

Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there 🙂

The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.

@dafyre said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

@scottalanmiller said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

@matteo-nunziati said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

for curiosity sake: who is actually using dragonfly bsd and why?

I've deployed it a bit in labs. I'm always watching it closely because Hammer is very important.

Hammer?

One of the world's most advanced fileystems. Dragonfly is important as a kernel alternative ecosystem to FreeBSD, from which it split (in many ways Dragonfly is the real FreeBSD and FreeBSD is the "new" product that split from it) but its real relevance is as a filesystem research platform. The kernel maintainer there writes a totally unique filesystem, called Hammer, just for Dragonfly.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

@Grey said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

Pop quiz: why do you need the dash with su?

That was in the original article.

And I quoted you without quoting you..... see what I did there, I switched a few words 😛

@scottalanmiller said:

For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive.

In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.

It's just that Windows Phone and Windows RT have merged and that's where that codebase has gone. It's real Windows now, from my understanding.

Haven't used BSD since my days at Data General. DG/UX was a hybrid, BSD for the file system (faster and more robust), networking used streams from ATT Sys V. I have now dated myself.