Poor User's Almanack

Poor User's illustrated, lessons for the young and old on industry, temperance, frugality, IRC & UNIX.

To administer a free and independent network run by the users themselves.

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Training
Code Force Bootcamp	Code of Honor	My Server	Call of Duty	Good Questions
	Progress	Medals
Team	Stable sysadmin	Testing sysadmin ?	Servers' Rights	Announcements
Congress Procedure	Historic Documents	Milestones
Deployment Procedure ?
Abuse Code
Civics
Netizenship	New User's Welcome	Become a Netizen	Netizen Rights
Independence	Self-Admin	Declaration	Freedom to Fork	Constitution & Bill of Rights
Liberty	Religious Liberty	No Central Censor	Software Freedom	Privacy
Opportunity	Free Homestead VPS	Made on IRC	Unix Work Ethic	The Startup Dream
Justice	Open For Everyone	Due Process	Checks and Balances	Rule by Law
Union	Federation	United We Serve

OpenBSD
OpenBSD	Intro
Virtual Machines	Configure VMM	VMM Install Guide	VMM User Guide	VMM Linux Guide
Debian ISO
	VMM Debian Guide	Optimize VMM	VMM Ubuntu ?	Buyvm Guide
VMM Plan 9
vmm router	VMM home router
Bare Metal	Dell	Supermicro	BeagleBone Black
Upgrade	OpenBSD 6.7 Upgrade	OpenBSD 6.8 Upgrade	OpenBSD 6.9 Upgrade ?
Sysupgrade	OpenBSD 6.8 Sysupgrade	OpenBSD 6.9 Sysupgrade
Install	OpenBSD 6.7 Install	OpenBSD 6.8 Install	OpenBSD 6.9 Install	OpenBSD 7.0 Install
OpenBSD Ramdisk Install
	ResetPassword	OpenBSD Books

Networking
TCP/IP	IPv4	IPv6	sockets ?	Netmasks ?
TCP/IP ports ?
	Anycast Addresses
Configure	Static Networking	Change Static Network	My IP address
ifconfig ?	route ?
	dhcpd	npppd	pppoe	ntpd
Firewall
Packet Filter	PF Guide	PF for Stable	PF for Testing	pfbadhost
DDoS Defense	SSDP attack	TCP ack flood	TCP reset flood	SYN Flood ?
	HTTP Flood ?	NTP Amplification ?	UDP Flood	amplification attack
Troubleshooting
Network Layer	ping	netcat	tcpdump
	netcat IRC	netcat HTTP
send mail with netcat
Application	Telnet HTTP	OpenSSL HTTP	OpenSSL IMAP	OpenSSL SMTP ?
	Check OpenSSL certs

Routing
bgpd configuration

DNS
DNS Overview	DNS Records	FQDN	Name Registrars	vhost
	FreeDNS vhosts	IRCNow vhosts
Authoritative
nsd	nsd master slave	Troubleshoot Nsd ?	rDNS	Zone File
	NSD Zone file
delphinusdnsd
DNS for Mail	SPF Records	DKIM Records	DMARC Records
ipv6 rDNS	ipv4 rDNS
Caching
unbound	Using host	Using dig	unbound adblock
DNS Blacklists ?	rbldns

Cryptography
Signing
Verify GPG signatures	netpgp	signify
VPNs
IPSec	iked	Configure iked	VPN clients	iked new config
Tor
Tor	torsocks	Hidden Services	IRC with Tor ?
TLS
TLS Overview ?	TLS Intro ?	Certificate Authorities
acme-client	relayd TLS Acceleration	relayd TLS Acceleration Multi	Let's Encrypt Expired Cert
SSH
	sshd ?	ssh ?	SSH keys	SSH backdoor
Disable Password ?	Creating ssh keys
	OpenSSH 2FA with S/key ?
Two-FactorAuth	SSH Drawterm
File Transfer
sftp	chrooted sftp
ftpd	FTP server ?
torrent	bittorrent server ?
Coins
bitcoin	monero

Version Control
CVS	anoncvs	CVS intro	cvsweb		CVS Guide
	Create CVS Repos
pastebin	Install paster	Install fiche

Web ?
OpenHTTPd	OpenHTTPd Hosting	HTTP open proxies	Perl for OpenHTTPd	php
OpenHTTPd TLS ?
Applications
PHP	dokuwiki	pmwiki	simpleurl	SquirrelMail	Wordpress
	Install RoundCube ?
	OSCommerce	cumulus clips ?	fluxbb ?	Question2Answer ?
	h5ai ?	manna ?	EasyApp
C	cgit	gotweb
Database
Mariadb
IRC
IRC Guides
IRC	IRC101	Channel Op Guide	Oper Guide	Services Guide ?
	IRC Clients
HostServ Rules
	unrealircd
Bouncers
Install znc (no chroot)	chroot znc	ZNC admin	ZNC Support	ZNC modules
Using ZNC	ZNC webpanel (relayd)
	ZNC I18n	Troubleshoot ZNC		Debugging ZNC
PsyBNC	psybnc
BNCs	ilines
Ident
Ident	identd	oidentd install	oidentd for znc
Clients
ii ?	sic
Servers
ngircd install	ngircd link	ngircd ssl
ngircdlink ?	hopm	acopm		Test hopm
Services
achurch	anope
Relays
pylink	chroot pylink	bitlbee install	matterbridge
Bots
Eggdrop	Install eggdrop 1.9.1	tcltls	Install eggdrop 1.8.4
	Identify with NickServ
Channel	chroot wraith
Custom	biblebot ?	botnow	censord	ircrelayd ?

Languages
Perl	CPAN ?
Korn	unix101
C

Mail
OpenSMTPd	opensmtpd	opensmtpd relay	opensmtpd-2	Mail Open Proxy ?
Troubleshooting OpenSMTPd
Open Mail Relay
Spam	dmarc	spf	dkim ?
Test opensmtpd
	spamd ?	DKIM
Mail	dovecot	mlmmj
Clients	alpine ?	mutt ?	fdm

System Admin
Disks	Adding a New Disk	fdisk	disklabel	Growfs partition
pkg	pkglocatedb	ports
Utilities	sudo, doas	syspatch	cron ?	rcctl ?
	adduser
	symbolic links	tmux Config	tmux share	XTerm
Backups	dump	restore ?	openrsync	rsync usage
fdisk
iplookup ?	vi	mg ?	base64	Chinese
Editing crontab ?	ps process	Sending signals with kill
vipw	tar usage ?
rcctl	syslogd ?

Shell
ksh for bash users	Redirection with Pipes

Games
Misc	FreeCiv ?	OpenTTD ?

Minetest
Minetest
Adding Arenas	Server Locations	Texture Style Guide	Updating the Game	World Backup

Documents
LaTeX	TexLive

Telephony
SIP	asterisk ?
Media	ImageMagick	vorbis	sndiod	sox
	icecast	ffmpeg ?

News
leafnode	Web News Install	News clients	INN
Gopher
gopher	gophernicus	geomyidae ?	Bucky Install ?
Alt Social Media
prosody	biboumi	matrix	fediverse
gomuks
Misc ?

Hosting
Hosting Providers	OpenHTTPd Hosting	vmm

Security
Hardening	chroot	Password Mgmt
MITM: Man in the Middle ?
Phishing	Denial of Service ?	Spam ?	0days ?
Rootkits ?	pledge ?	unveil ?
Database Permissions ?
Secure web apps ?	Trust ?	Default Deny ?
login.conf	Intrusion detection system ?
setuid binaries	system accounting ?	file quotas ?
File Permissions	Shell Accounts	Policing Guide
oath-toolkit ?

Sheriff
intro ?	Policing Guide

Desktop
XFCE	Install XFCE
FVWM	Configure FVWM	Configure XDefaults
VNC	Install TigerVNC	TigerVNC with SSH

Android
Install F-Droid

VMM
OpenBSD
Linux
Plan9front
NetBSD
DragonflyBSD

Plan 9
9 intro	Plan9 Shells ?	9 Install	partdisk	Plan 9 ini
Drawterm ?	JSDrawterm	9 Links	9 Showcase ?
9 101	9 bootcamp ?
sysupdate	3rd party packages ?	ssh	Customize rio
netcat	9gridchan

Historical Articles
dkimproxy	OpenSMTPd	rbldns