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08-31-2005, 05:05 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Turning graphical mode (XWindows) off for servers
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)
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