On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > > > I have 2 machines. > > > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. > > > One is Jessie with Mate DE. > > > Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD] > > > privileges. > > > Power on yields operating system. > > > > Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I'm > > guessing) a machine to come up with its full Desktop Environment as if > > the user "myexperiments" had sat at the console and typed in their > > username and password. > > > > I have no idea why you wrote "Power on yields operating system." > > (Unless you meant No BIOS Password and No Grub Password, so that > > linux itself boots when you power up.) > > And that's the trivial part, the non trivial part is locking down the > browser and DE so that the rest of the system is inaccessible by the end > user. > > I would search google about setting up a kiosk system.
I know that various people have suggested that Richard may mean a kiosk system, but how does the above quotation from him mean that? Lisi
