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FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults

This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
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Mar 19, 2016FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults by ran29020864
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