Thanks, the inittab will be tested, one question, what about the X session, how is this started? I know I can start at run level 5, but how else, mozilla of course will not run on a command line without X first being started. Neil On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 12:19, Piero Calucci wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 12:38, Neil Marjoram wrote: > > I have been given an idea by someone to come up with a system that when > > booted starts up into a Netscape / Mozilla full screen mode secure > > terminal, without the ability for anyone to get in 'behind' the browser. > > > > If this can be done easily we are looking at replacing and adding to the > > public interactive terminals around the museum. This would be a > > wonderful coup for Linux within the museum, and help to gain more > > acceptance of it's use, both internally and to the public. We already > > employ RH7.3 for the front end web server, DNS etc, now I want everyone > > to see it! > > > > I have been told it can be done, so anyone have any ideas ? > > quick&dirty: > > set up a guest account with a restricted shell and a "exec > mozilla/netscape/whatever" in its (read-only) .bashrc, then give it > write permission to cache directory only and disallow login to ttys > > A better way would be to start the browser directly from inittab with > respawn but I've never tried anything like this.... > > Piero -- Neil Marjoram <n.marjoram@xxxxxxxxx> Victoria & Albert Museum -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
