Building a RedHat based kiosk.
Tom Fogal
tfogal at io.iol.unh.edu
Mon Jul 7 09:19:02 EDT 2003
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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