hi, i've recently installed FC4 in my system. every time i am login, i am loging in as "Root". now i want to login in shell prompt in "Sigle user mode"..can i do that??if so how??i don't want GUI at the time of bootup.
I am not entirely certain what you want to do. There is something called Runlevel and Linux would boot into a particular run-level based on settings in the /etc/inittab file - which is read by the init process. You can set your system to boot to Runlevel 1 - which is true Single User mode. You change the default setting of - id:5:initdefault: to id:1:initdefault: However, I am assuming that you want to boot into the text console and then move into the GUI when you want to. For that you should enter Runlevel 3 - so again, change the /etc/inittab entry to: id:3:initdefault: **** Please keep a backup of a working copy of /etc/inittab each time you change it. Finally, on RedHat-like systems, like Fedora, you might boot into the default Runlevel 5 (GUI) and switch to the text consoles (1-6) using Ctrl+Alt+F<n> where n is F<n> is one of the Function keys F1 to F6. To switch back to the GUI, use Alt+F7. To switch between text consoles, use Alt+F1 ... Alt+F6.
mentioning that i've not created any other users.. i had asked this quest earlier,but i've not get the reply.. thx & regds
You should create non-root users and assign them to appropriate user groups. Use the following commands ... RTM: groupadd - For adding groups useradd - For adding users, creating their home directories and creating default settings like default shell, etc. passwd - To change the user's password chfn - To change a user's finger info chsh - To change a user's default shell chown/chgrp - To change ownership / group ownership of the user's home directory You might want to make a small interactive shell script and run it to add any user at any point of time. Cheers, Arindam -- To iterate is human, to recurse - Divine. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
