Michael George wrote:
>
> 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.
>
How about the kiosk howto -
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html
hth,
kent
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