> 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


JWZ has an article up about how he is doing this in his nightclub.  He is
doing the same thing you describe, and I think it can help you out.

http://www.jwz.org/kiosk/

--Stew



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