There are a lot of good articles about server securing & hardening, remote administration and so on. But a lot of people forget to turn off graphical mode for Linux based servers - a lot of companies set-up boxes with Xwindows automatic startup when the server reboots.

In order to turn it off for additional security, please edit

/etc/inittab

file and make sure the configuration line for id is set as follows:

id:3:initdefault:


By default, if you have graphical mode enabled at start-up you will see

id:5:initdefault:

Feel free to reboot the box (be sure it boots up correctly)

enjoy and happy hosting!