Building a RedHat based kiosk.

[Tom Fogal]

might want to take a look at:

http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/Kiosk-HOWTO-html/Kiosk-HOWTO.html

little different from what you're trying to do, but might have a few ideas..

HTH,

-tom

> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone offer me some pointers to typical changes made to a
> "kiosk-like" RedHat system to make it brain-dead simple for users? For
> example, I'd like to hide all the details of booting the system, such as
> the kernel messages and the init script status output. I'd also like to
> do the same on shutdown. Finally, I'd like the system to automatically
> log in a user and make it simple for the user to shut down the system
> without seeing a multi-option GNOME window which reads "Log Out"
> "Reboot" "Shut Down", etc.
> 
> Currently I'm using RedHat 8.0 for this with the bare minimum of GNOME
> applications. I can automatically log in a user on bootup with a special
> GDM config, but the shutting down of the system seems a bit more complex
> - for some reason, the GNOME Log Out button and menu doesn't allow any
> customization. I'm thinking a bad hack would be to set up sudo to allow
> a user to issue "shutdown -h now" and add an icon to the desktop which
> does that. But when that's done it's not really exiting the X session
> correctly and I'd prefer to do things a better way. 
> 
> Let me know if I'm being too vague. The system I'm building isn't really
> a kiosk, it's a sound level monitoring station which will be booted and
> used often by computer illiterate users, or at best Windows neophytes. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> -- 
> Scott A. Garman                            Unix System Administrator
> sgarman at einstein.unh.edu                   UNH Nuclear Physics Group
> 
> 
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