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title: "How To: OpenBSD (on a Remote Server)"
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dateCreated: 2025-12-12
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dateUpdated: 2025-12-12
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dateUpdated: 2025-12-17
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## Preamble
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### Caveats
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I'm pretty new to OpenBSD and system administration in general, so there may be
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errors in this document. You should consider this as a resource, not the be-all
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and end-all of all the steps you should take to set up an OpenBSD server.
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errors in this document. You should consider this a resource, not the be-all and
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end-all of what you should do to set up an OpenBSD server. When in doubt, the
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official FAQ and man pages referenced below are your friends.
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Additionally, this skips installation, disk partitioning, network setup, etc.
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since the server provider I use supports OpenBSD out of the box and already
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handles those things when spinning up new instances. If you need them, some of
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my references below discuss those steps.
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handles those things when spinning up new instances. If you need them, some
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resources referenced below discuss those steps.
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## Steps
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14. (Remote as root) Restart SSH daemon:
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14. (Remote as root) Reload SSH daemon:
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- <https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config.5>
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- <https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf.5>
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## Changelog
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- December 17, 2025
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- Minor updates to caveats
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- Change "restart" to "reload" in step 14

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