Hello!
I'm working on making a kiosk system which will run in a coffee shop as a
demo. I've defined a user under which to run the processes, though I only
need the system, X, and Netscape running for my purposes.
What I'd like to do is have the system boot up and start X immediately as my
user. The user's environment will then start up the window manager and
Netscape.
I'm having trouble effecting this scenario, though. I've tried putting
"/bin/login user" into the /etc/inittab file and that will get user logged in
with a shell, but I cannot start X because there is no tty assigned to the
user (a "?" is what shows up in a "ps aux") and so X won't start.
The default for runlevel 5 is to run xdm (or something equivalent), but the
man pages for xdm don't indicate anything that allows me to bypass the login
screen and directly log a user in.
I've checked the howto's (BTW, where is the HOWTO rpm in 6.2?), but I didn't
find any files there which seems to be relevant. I am sure there's a way to
do this, and it's probably not all that hard... Basically, if I can get getty
to directly pass through to login without the login prompt, I think things
could progress quite normally from there...
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
-Michael
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the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
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