How-To Tutorials

This area includes How-To Tutorials on topics related to creating web sites and adminstering the computers and networks that web sites run on. It includes:

• Beginner's Guide to Secure Shell (SSH) covers the basics of setting up OpenBSD, Linux and Windows ssh clients and servers.
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Standardize the appearance of common elements throughout your web site.
• Computer Time Synchronization: Finding and installing software to synchronize all your computers to the correct time.
• Dual Boot Open Source Systems is a comprehensive guide to booting two or more FreeBSD, Linux, and or OpenBSD systems from the same hard disk.
• Good and Bad Passwords An in Depth Analysis of Good, Bad, Strong and Weak Passwords, Password Cracking Techniques and How-To Reduce Password Vulnerabilities
• Hardening OpenBSD: Making the most secure general purpose operating system more secure.
• Homegrown Intrusion Detection: Simple scripts automate notification of file changes and unrecognized processes.
• Ten Practical Security Steps for Resource Limited IT Staffs or how-to achieve reasonable security with limited effort, covers security basics and essentials.

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