On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Bill Glidden wrote:
> Say I'm writing a kiosk application. I want the user to just be able to
> turn on the machine, and have it ultimately start up this kiosk application
> without having them go through a login procedure (mainly because there won't
> be a keyboard on the machine).
>
> Is this possible?
/etc/(rc.d/)init.d/kiosk:
#! /bin/bash
...
start)
su kioskuser -c kioskstartscript &
...
or something similar
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