I just recently installed FreeBSD and my system has basically nothing. I add one user which is myself. However I can't do anything with that account since i haven't set permission. My friend told me I need to use sudo command, but which is not available in my machine yet... i don't have lynx and gweb .... can anyone tell me how I obtain sudo , lynx gweb to my system? and of course, how do i set user permission ? Thanks very much
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Jump to PostThe reason you can't do administrative tasks with a regular user is because it's more secure that way. It's designed so that normal users will have to authenticate themselves if they want to add or remove software from a system, change systemwide settings, etc.
You don't need sudo to …
Jump to Post>When I typed " % su " my freeBSD pops "command not found"
No '%' is necessary. Just type insu
at the prompt without any kind of prefix, and it should work fine.Once you're authenticated, follow the link I gave in my previous post for instructions on …
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