[ale] Kiosk

[Wandered Inn]

I just did an install of Mandrake 7.2 and one of the options they offer
(which I did not accept) was to login as a particular user when the
machine is booted.  I've not looked into it other than to note that if
you don't accept it, there was some reference to a variable USER not
being set when the machine rebooted.

Looks like this might be something you would be able to use, sorry I
don't have more info on it.  I'll scrounge around and see if I can get
more info on it.

David Corbin wrote:
> 
> Well, it will also act as a server.  I really don't like that idea,
> though it is difficult for me to pin down as to the why....
> 
> I guess in part because then I don't have a way to go to REAL single
> user mode that is for maintenance/recovery...
> 
> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> >
> > Can you set the machine to be single user? or does it have to have net
> > access?  I would start the machine single user and then bring up networking
> > yourself (via a startup script or something) and load the X app.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of David
> > Corbin
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:04 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Kiosk
> >
> > I would like one of my systems, upon boot, to "login" as a particular
> > user, and run a some specific (X) application.  What's the best way to
> > do this?  Should I just whip up a little program that su's and then
> > execs what I want, and put it in inittab?  It should function much like
> > a Kiosk.
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> > David Corbin
> > dcorbin at machturtle.com
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