SSH Primer
by Chris Coleman

When you ask how you can make your BSD box more secure, the first thing people will tell you is to use SSH if you aren't already. If you are new to BSD or Unix in general, you might still be mastering the art of logging in to the console and not have given a thought to logging in remotely. If you are using Mac OS X, you may not have even realized that you can log in remotely. Read More

sysctl On NetBSD
by Sean Davis

The sysctl() call is more useful than many would think at first glance. When I first looked at it, I thought the only use one could get out of it was being able to do what /sbin/sysctl does from my own C code -but it can do so much more. Read More

A Tour through the NetBSD Source Tree - Part III: Kernel
by Hubert Feyrer

This is the third part of our tour through the NetBSD source tree. After we have talked about the various components that build up the userland, we will concentrate on the kernel source now. Read More

Trawling the Ports Collection
by Greg Lehey

Last month we looked at how the ports collection can give you a more comfortable environment in which to work. One of the things I mentioned there was the issue of printed documentation for the ports. This month we'll look at how to print some things with the aid of the ports collection. Read More

The Answer Man
by Todd Whitesel

The Answer Man dives into his mail bag to solve even more problems. This month: floppy-disk boot managers, FTP and NTFS in BSD, web-ifying 'passwd', and more! Read More

The Daemon's Advocate
by Wes Peters

What is needed for online computing to become ubiquitous, part of the very background of our lives, is for all of our applications to become agnostic to the device type and location used for access. What we really need is an expanding of our viewpoint when developing or maintaining applications. Read More