Re: make system boot straight to browser connection
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.
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