The first paragraph of this book's afterword reads:

“ "You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority of IT professionals! Congratulations". ”

That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the book up to that point and has incorporated at least some of the elements of the configurations it describes into their own environments.

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In episode 208 of his bsdtalk podcast, Will Backman talks about how he uses OpenBSD virtual machines to aid in his teaching of a Unix course at the University of Maine, along with details of why he chose it and how it helps round-out his pupils' understanding of different Unixes.

The podcast files (15min, 7MB) are available here:

Ogg: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.ogg , MP3: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.mp3

Daniel M wrote in about the wiconfig script that he wrote to handle moving a laptop between networks:

So, I got tired of doing my little time saving workarounds every time I connected to a wireless network and decided to look for a solution. Several people have posted little wireless scripts here, to misc@ and minor modifications to help simplify and automate the configuration of wireless, but the scripts never seemed to go far enough. Read more...

As several submitters wrote in to remind us, Following the regular 6-monthly schedule, OpenBSD 5.0 was released on 1 November and is available on CDs and online.

Frédéric Perrin wrote in with this EuroBSDCon conference report:

Back from EuroBSDcon 2011 that took place in the beginning of October in the Netherlands, I started to organise my notes, and finally published them.

Topics that where covered include OpenBSD port to UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors, by kettenis@; the Minix 3 architecture and how Minix was designed with reliability and security in mind by Herbert Bos; NPF: a new packet filter for NetBSD 6.0 by Zoltan Arnold Nagy, and others topics: storage, virtualisation, history of *BSD systems, etc.

Slides for other OpenBSD talks given in EuroBSDcon (and in other conferences) are available on-line.

For a few days in September (16th through 23rd), the Slovenian capital Ljubljana was also the World Capital of OpenBSD hacking, hosting the s2k11: General hackathon, with 25 developers participating. We asked each of the the developers to send us a short summary of what happened at s2k11 as soon as they'd caught up on sleep, and several of them obliged quickly.

We published a small selection in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, here we present the third and final installment, with insights into the development process and previews of features that may soon appear in -current and snapshots before they make it into an upcoming release.

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