A strained ego...Yeah what ever....learned to use some of unix years ago...that is how to use BASH/Vi etc., and procedural {shell} programing. Went over to Linux since then and recently elected to, and now have Ubuntu 18.04 installed with dual boot BSD 11.2.
Cognitive Dissonance" like sitting on a thumbtack only it is psychological/intellectual/ mental.
*!@&*!#. I realize that I don't speak tech geek well enough to properly and correctly address someone knowledgeable in the area I need help in with (the correct form/dialect/techspeak.)
Man! like WOW....I can use unix for what I need if I could just get in to the bleeping system.
I now have the BSD 11.2 OS installed as a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux 18.04. The plan was to finally go back to unix. BUT! I can't get in my own bleeping BSD system. I have a user name and a password for it that was created when the system was installed by a tech in a shop where I bought the laptop. I assumed that from there I could use sudo to make changes in the permissions so that I could
1.shut down the system with out having to press the power switch
,2. change the permissions on my home directory so that I could set the font size on the command line which is so tiny, and of course the other data on the command line, the time, date,directory,command number etc.
But nooooo (and here if you read this far, use the nooooo of the John Belushi type, if you will, to get the right twist on the Nooo). I can't get in to or figure out how to get the sudo command to work. when I tried to load the package for sudo with: pkg install sudo I get Permission denied.
Round and round....Wow...what a bummer.
Hey I realize that someone who is knowledgeable about unix BSD would laugh this off so ha ha ha. OK laugh at this bungling question.....
Still...if you have read this far can you please tell me how I can set the permissions WHAT EVER IT TAKES so that I can fire up the device arrive at the command line after I enter my user name and password and then have permission in the root and in my /user/home/john (john is my home directory) so that I can shut down the device, change permissions in directories including the root so that I can set the font size on the command line and the other command line settings which I know how to do once I get permission to do so.
This probably all seems somewhat amusing to a smug expert who reads this kind of commentary for amusement. I am at wits end with this problem. I need to be able to set the permissions for the root and my home directory so that can shut the device down and so that i can change the font. If I can't get these two or three simple things straightened out and fixed in my personal memory and understanding of BSD, my quest to use the system and possibly make some kind of contribution at some level eventually is/will be impossible.
HELP! If you can. Thanks!
Cognitive Dissonance" like sitting on a thumbtack only it is psychological/intellectual/ mental.
*!@&*!#. I realize that I don't speak tech geek well enough to properly and correctly address someone knowledgeable in the area I need help in with (the correct form/dialect/techspeak.)
Man! like WOW....I can use unix for what I need if I could just get in to the bleeping system.
I now have the BSD 11.2 OS installed as a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux 18.04. The plan was to finally go back to unix. BUT! I can't get in my own bleeping BSD system. I have a user name and a password for it that was created when the system was installed by a tech in a shop where I bought the laptop. I assumed that from there I could use sudo to make changes in the permissions so that I could
1.shut down the system with out having to press the power switch
,2. change the permissions on my home directory so that I could set the font size on the command line which is so tiny, and of course the other data on the command line, the time, date,directory,command number etc.
But nooooo (and here if you read this far, use the nooooo of the John Belushi type, if you will, to get the right twist on the Nooo). I can't get in to or figure out how to get the sudo command to work. when I tried to load the package for sudo with: pkg install sudo I get Permission denied.
Round and round....Wow...what a bummer.
Hey I realize that someone who is knowledgeable about unix BSD would laugh this off so ha ha ha. OK laugh at this bungling question.....
Still...if you have read this far can you please tell me how I can set the permissions WHAT EVER IT TAKES so that I can fire up the device arrive at the command line after I enter my user name and password and then have permission in the root and in my /user/home/john (john is my home directory) so that I can shut down the device, change permissions in directories including the root so that I can set the font size on the command line and the other command line settings which I know how to do once I get permission to do so.
This probably all seems somewhat amusing to a smug expert who reads this kind of commentary for amusement. I am at wits end with this problem. I need to be able to set the permissions for the root and my home directory so that can shut the device down and so that i can change the font. If I can't get these two or three simple things straightened out and fixed in my personal memory and understanding of BSD, my quest to use the system and possibly make some kind of contribution at some level eventually is/will be impossible.
HELP! If you can. Thanks!