GUI disappear

[guanyu]

Hi, I need help. After I reboot my Red hat 7.1. it didn't bring up the gui interface. it straight away go to consoloe. What is going on? Pls let me know. Beside, do you know how to enable telnet from other machine.
I had edit xinetd.conf/telnet disable= no
and /wu-ftpd disable = no. it still won't allow me to telnet in from other machine. what is the problem with that?
Thank you... :confused:

[EyesWideOpen]

Originally posted by guanyu:
After I reboot my Red hat 7.1. it didn't bring up the gui interface. it straight away go to consoloe. What is going on?

If you want it to boot into X (GUI) by default you will have to change the runlevel. To do this edit the file /etc/inittab as root and look for a line similar to this: id:3:initdefault:.

If you change the 3 above to a 5 like so id:5:initdefault: you will boot into X by default.

Welcome to LNO. ;)

[guanyu]

Thanks. I make it. but another problem occured. i can't logon as root by using telnet or ftp. but i managed to logon as normal user. so do you know what is going on with it? Thank you. Appreciate that.

[bdg1983]

i can't logon as root by using telnet or ftp. but i managed to logon as normal user

I believe that is a security feature. How and if you can bypass it, I'm not sure. The Security NHF's may have someone.

[Derango]

I don't think you can log on as root through telnet or ssh by default for security reasons (its realy easy to tap into a telnet connection)

Instead, try logging on as a normal user, then type "su". Enter your root password when prompted. You will now be logged on as root. when you're finished with anything you needed to do as root, you can type "exit" to return to your normal user.

[Keyser Soze]

Leave the security as it is, lower security settings will allow a root login in 7.1, but it is inadvisable. To root you a hacker need only get the root account password(and you can't even lock out multiple bad attempts!. To root you the way you are setup up(using ssh, never ever ever run telnet) he/she first has to guess a user name and password then the root password. Much harder to do. Just leave it the way it is. Except you really need to do a rpm -e telnet-server , don't bother to look this up, take my word for it. It will really help the performance of your telnet sessions..... ;)