Re: make system boot straight to browser connection
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 (rowlett@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
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