During the keyboard based password authentication if we provide wrong password then freeBSD system ask for password 3 times before giving it up. Is there a way I can restrict it to just 1 ? Like if someone give wrong password then no login, no need to ask again. TIA

How can we configure pam.d in freebsd to let a user login using ssh private/public key pair with having the user exist in /etc/passwd ( like in local system ). I meant user is not created in system but authentication can be done via public/private key of sshd. Pleas let me know if there is a way.

Running BIND9 on FreeBSD. rndc status says server is running. However, after a rndc freeze, I edited a zone file and removed some no longer needed entries. I updated the serial number so it would update the secondary server. I received an out of range error when I tried to reload the zone....and even if I try to rndc thaw the zone...I get the same out of range error.  After research on the web, It was recommended to delete the jnl file associated to the zone. Again even after that step, the reload returned an out of range error. Very cautious with updating the DNS as it's the primary for our network....

Please help. Also...It does NOT seem that my DNS is updating the secondary server.

Thank you

Hello,
I have a FreeBSD and ubuntu server.
I crate a cronjob to execute in specific time. but the command that I do required a full privilege on system... so how I can make the cronjob work with root for example ?
thanks.

I am trying to install FreeNAS from a USB on a server and am running into all sorts of problems. I have used UNetBootIn, Universal USB Installer, and ISO to USB to try to get the ISO on the stick, but they don't boot because there is a missing boot loader.  So I did a search and discovered that the only way to install from a Windows computer was to use Win32 Disk Imager.  However, that required an .img file and all I had was an ,ISO file.  So, I used PowerISO to make a .img file from the ,ISO file.  This resulted in:

No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/i386 boot
BTX halted

Can anyone provide any insights into how I am supposed to be doing this?

Hi,

I created a few different zpool configs on ZFS using FreeNAS and I'm trying to figure out a way to reliably benchmark the performance.

I first tried it from a remote host connecting to an SMB share. In Windows I can't get any higher than 60 MBps. Both using a normal file copy (big file) and using various benchmarking tools. On linux I tried filling up a file using
to a smb mapped drive using a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cifs-share1/test1.img bs=1G count=5 There I get up to 106 MBps and then I guess I'm hitting the 1 Gbps Ethernet connection speed limit.

On to the host itself: So far I tried the default way using iozone which ships with FreeNAS. But the results seem to be high to be true so the question is how do I do it reliably and how to interpete the results?

The result I'm getting is:

    sudo iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G | tee -a /tmp/iozone_results.txt
         

Excel chart generation enabled
        Record Size 4 kB
        File size set to 10485760 kB
        Command line used: iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G
        Output is in kBytes/sec
        Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
        Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
        Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
        File stride size set to 17 * record size.
        Min process = 5
        Max process = 5
        Throughput test with 5 processes
        Each process writes a 10485760 kByte file in 4 kByte records

        Children see throughput 

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Hello,

  I would like to know if there is a way to create a Symlink-like file but with the difference that the file it points to gets executed when the link is read and the output is what I get from reading it.
  It should work on freebsd/linux.

Thanks

Best regards

I inherited a FreeBSD box that is forwarding email using Postfix through various JLS (jails).

Two days ago I switched the MX record(s) to point to a third party service that is going to replace this FreeBSD server.

When I log into the FreeBSD machine and look at the logs (specifically to see if mail is flowing), I see two or three messages in a handful of jails.

A week ago before the MX record change there would have been 20 emails every few minutes, so something obviously changed, which was expected.

What was NOT expected was to see ANY mail flow through the FreeBSD machine.

My question is: Should I expect to see some mail for an extended amount of time? I'm asking because I thought that once I changed the MX record - with a TTL of 300 for all 5 priorities - that it would handle all the mail.

Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone. I'm going crazy trying to join my FREENAS server to windows 2008 AD service. I've tried almost everything with no luck. I always get this message:

Unable to find domain controllers for innovateperu.local.

and the log shows:  

FreeNAS_ActiveDirectory_Base.get_SRV_records: no SRV records for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.innovateperu.local found, fail!

I have attached some screenshots of my FREENAS configuration

PS.
My local domain is: innovateperu.local
ad_conf.png
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network_conf.png
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Can I delete /root/authorized_keys in FreeBSD.  I've had some break-ins and want to cover all bases.

I'm having trouble getting FTP to work on our server.

When I check auth.log it contains:

Jul  5 13:06:29 216-55-xxx-xxx sshd[57421]: Accepted password for ftpuser from 67.177.xxx.xxx port 58996 ssh2
Jul  5 13:06:29 216-55-xxx-xxx sshd[57423]: subsystem request for sftp by user ftpuser failed, subsystem not found

Any ideas?  It's been a LONG time since I configured this server.