OpenBSD based SSH appliance

a SSH appliance based on a minimal OpenBSD 3.9 installation

Description

This appliance can safely be used as an SSH entrypoint for remote access to a private or corporate network.

Safely use SSH for a remote shell, to tunnel TCP connections or use Secure FTP using this small and simple appliance.

This small appliance is based on a minimal OpenBSD 3.9 installation.

Enjoy the security, reliability and performance of OpenBSD, thanks to Theo de Raadt and his team of dedicated developers.

:OpenBSD?

OpenBSD is known as the most secure operating system in existence after OpenVMS. At least the most secure operating system for the populair x86 and x64 platform.

:How is it installed

A minimal installation, no additional kernels, no X, no games. Needs less then 600mb of your cheap storage.

:How is it configured

For better performance a Intel e1000 network driver is chosen. DHCP is used for easy network configuration.
A 9 gb expanding SCSI disk with a 7gb / root partition and a 500mb swap partition is configured as independent-persistent disk for performance reasons. No additional hardware is used but could be added afterwards thanks to OpenBSD's outstanding hardware support.
To bad, there aren't yet VMware tools available for OpenBSD.

:How to get started

Just download and extract, watch the VM booting and take a note of the IP adress assigned with DHCP.

username: root
password: theorulez

Change the password as soon as possible! Choose a good password to protect your applicance against dictionary- and bruteforce attacks. Your password might very well be the weakest point of your OpenBSD system.

Learn about using SSH: http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html
Learn more about using OpenBSD: http://www.bsdguides.org

OpenBSD can freely be used and distributed thanks to the open and free BSD license (www.openbsd.org). Same story for OpenSSH (www.openssh.org).

Don't thank me, instead support the OpenBSD/OpenSSH developers by donating: http://openbsd.org/donations.html
or by buying t-shirts and cd's:
http://openbsd.org/orders.html

Last updated: 05/11/2006

Operating system: OpenBSD 3.9

Applications installed:
OpenSSH

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 125 MB
Torrent available: Yes
(What is BitTorrent?)

Primary account
Username: root
Password: theorulez

Submitted by: bvdl

Download link provided by the submitter, not VMware. Report broken downloads here.

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