04-26-2002
Linux help on X and motd
Hie guys
im new to Unix. Need some advise or favour perhaps. Iam running Red hat Linux 7.2 and as soon as i install with GUI and so done, i reboot the system. After i reboot it directly went to the GUI login. I able to login and do my stuffs. My question is how to hold the system not to directly go to GUI login and instead of it i can use the system without X. I want it to be temprorary use. I dunt want it to become permanent without GUI. I done before last time but forgot it (Start Linux without X by pressing some keys). Any idea?
Second question.
How to set motd for my users? I use root and i edit the file /etc/motd. as soon as done and i change the permission no motd comes up durring boot any idea ? Does it needs no X GUI to start motd ?
Appreciate all the Unix gurus help. Do help this small Unix learner a bit
Thank you.
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system-config-authentication
AUTHCONFIG-GTK(8) System Manager's Manual AUTHCONFIG-GTK(8)
NAME
authconfig-gtk, system-config-authentication - GUI utility for configuring user identity and system authentication services
SYNOPSIS
authconfig-gtk [--nox] [--updateall] [--firstboot]
DESCRIPTION
authconfig-gtk provides a simple graphical user interface for configuring user identity and system authentication services. It provides
basic configuration options to handle NIS, LDAP, Kerberos 5, and Winbind client configuration.
OPTIONS
If the --nox option is specified, authconfig command line utility is run instead of the GUI.
The --updateall option forces overwriting of all configuration files not only the files affected by the changes made in the user interac-
tion with the GUI. This option can be useful in case the configuration files are broken by manual editing.
The --firstboot option is to be used only when firstboot utility runs the GUI during the first setup of the system after installation.
RETURN CODES
authconfig-gtk returns 0 on success, non zero on error.
SEE ALSO
authconfig(8), system-auth-ac(5)
AUTHORS
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>, Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>,
Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc. 31 March 2010 AUTHCONFIG-GTK(8)