OpenBSD reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live-Evidence-9834 · 2021-02-27 14:10 I got to work with a new OS named as Open BSD. But I got sucked in many places when dealing with this OpenBSD. So I need a kind help from anyone who know about OpenBSD to over come this problem. I need the steps as well as the commands to configure and customization the OpenBSD example - Customization the openBSD background and background image etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nu0or · 2021-02-27 14:59 troll post of the year, imo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MrRichBOB · 2021-03-03 04:41 I recommend _Absolute OpenBSD_ by M.W. Lucas. It is a bit older but not much has changed since he released his book. The only things of note are that now there are some more user-friendly utilities and the installation is a bit more stream-lined than in the book (and in a different order). The book, unlike many technical books, _is_ designed to be read cover- to-cover but it is fairly easy to skip around after reading just the first 3 chapters. I am sure it existed at the time, but I don't recall seeing it mentioned--`pkg_info -Q ` is gonna be your best friend. All of the man pages are perfectly wonderful and detailed, but not all give examples. `man -k ` is how you would search for a topic as with any \*NIX system. First orders of business, IMHO, are: man less (the default pager) man man (only necessary to gloss through) man afterboot man help (or just `help`) man doas The very first thing you should do after creating your default user (add him to the `wheel` group, of course, if you didn't make it during the install, and login in as root and type: echo "permit nopass keepenv :wheel" >> /etc/doas.conf You may want to change this, of course, but it should be a good enough default. You should be able to figure out where to go from there, but be sure to visit the [FAQ](https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html). - - - - TL:DR 1. _Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid_, Michael W. Lucas 2. Read the following manpages more or less in this order: `less`, `man`, `afterboot`, `help`, and `doas`; but, as you may miss it, know specifically that `pkg_info -Q` is how you search for packages, though it isn't the best in the world. 3. Enable `doas` by creating its configuration file 4. Visit the FAQ: 5. Learn how to use this powerful tool: . If that one feels too controlling or biased, use this one: .