Changing Login From Console To X At Startup - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual

Section 13.14:Changing Login from Console to X at Startup
You'll be asked to re-type the password for verification. Once you're finished, the password will be
changed and you can reboot by typing shutdown -r now at the prompt; then you can log in to
root as before.
13.13.3 Password Maintenance With Linuxconf
I forgot or want to change my user account password.
Open a shell prompt and log in as root (su - and root password). Then type linuxconf at the
prompt. This will open the linuxconf tool.
Click on
User accounts
click on User Accounts
Select the user name you need a password for and the
and a
New UNIX password
your old one, you have to select a new one; Linux will not tell you your old password. Click on

13.14 Changing Login from Console to X at Startup

13.14.1 Q: Changing to Graphical Login
How do I change my login from the console to the graphical screen?
13.14.2 A. Edit /etc/inittab
Instead of logging in to your system at the console and typing the startx command to start the X
Window System, you can configure your system so that you can log in directly to X.
You must edit one file, /etc/inittab, by changing just one number in the runlevel section. When
you're finished, log out and, the next time you log in, you'll have a graphical screen.
Open a shell prompt. If you're in your user account, su to root by typing
su
Password: yourrootpassword
Now, type pico /etc/inittab to edit the file with Pico. The file /etc/inittab will open.
Within the first screen, you'll see a section of the file which looks like this:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
to expand that part of the tree and then click on
again. A list of user accounts will appear.
dialog appears. Enter the new password for this user account. If you forgot
tab appears. Click on
Base information
. Under Normal,
Normal
Passwd
Accept
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