Base system

Set clock to localtime

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/CET /etc/localtime
rdate -ncv time.fu-berlin.de

UTF-8 system-wide

echo 'export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"' >> /etc/profile
echo 'export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"' >> ~/.xsession

Adjust max memory size

  • Edit /etc/login.conf

:datasize-max=1024M:\
:datasize-cur=1024M:\

  • Or set infinity: as value

Automatically adjust cpufreq

  • Edit /etc/rc.conf.local

apmd_flags="-A"

Ksh config

  • ~/.kshrc

export PS1='\[\t\] \u@\h:\w\$ '
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mg

set -o emacs

alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias rm='rm -i'

  • If you use tmux or screen put the following into ~/.profile

export ENV=~/.kshrc

Login using Google authenticator or freeotp

pkg_add login_oath

  • Edit /etc/login.conf

otp:\
      :auth=-totp-and-pwd:\
      :tc=default:

  • Change users login class

usermod -L otp username

  • Generate random key

openssl rand -base64 20 > ~/.totp-key
chmod 700 /home/username
chmod 700 /home/username/.totp-key