Examples starting with
<prompt>#
</prompt> indicate a command that must be invoked as the superuser in FreeBSD. You can login as
<systemitem class="username">root
</systemitem> to type the command, or login as your normal account and use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>su
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1
</manvolnum></citerefentry> to gain superuser privileges.