System Administration
Creating a User Account
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#AddDelUser
$ sudo useradd -m -c "Arto Bendiken" -G staff,wheel arto $ sudo passwd arto
$ sudo useradd -m -c "Buildbot slave" -u 999 buildbot
Changing the Login Shell
$ sudo usermod -s /usr/local/bin/bash arto
Adding sudo Privileges
$ sudo usermod -G wheel arto
$ cp -p /etc/sudoers{,.orig}
$ echo '#includedir /etc/sudoers.d' >> sudoers
$ mkdir -p /etc/sudoers.d && chmod 750 /etc/sudoers.d
$ echo '%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/wheel
$ chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/wheel
System Information
Release Information
$ uname -a OpenBSD openbsd.my.domain 5.6 GENERIC.MP#333 amd64
Platform Information
$ machine amd64 $ machine -a amd64
System Configuration
Package Management
Basic Configuration
$ export PKG_PATH="/mnt/cdrom/5.6/packages/`machine -a`/" $ export PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/packages/`machine -a`/" $ export PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/packages/amd64/" $ sudo pkg_add pkglocatedb
Finding a Package
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSearch
$ cd /usr/ports $ make search key=joe
Upgrading Packages
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
$ sudo pkg_add -u $ sudo pkg_add -u joe
Package Installation
Core Utilities
$ sudo pkg_add bash $ sudo pkg_add curl $ sudo pkg_add wget $ sudo pkg_add rsync $ sudo pkg_add tree $ sudo pkg_add git $ sudo pkg_add screen--
Note
sudo and tmux are part of the base system.
Text Editors
$ sudo pkg_add joe $ sudo pkg_add vim--no_x11 $ sudo pkg_add emacs--no_x11
Toolchain
$ sudo pkg_add gmake autoconf automake libtool $ sudo pkg_add g++-4.9.0p0 $ sudo pkg_add llvm # for clang
Note
pkg-config is part of the base system.
$ export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69 AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.14
Python 2.7
$ sudo pkg_add py-pip $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/bin/pip-2.7 /usr/local/bin/pip