From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 03:54:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45026106564A for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:54:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F5E68FC08 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25969 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jul 2011 03:54:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2011 03:54:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Xsrz20aCtsL6DGl8MKiAKAaXDgaEvuo1E8ylR1jvIGlnfDjj0bkj0VpgKyneaiAf+2dt0U2WydOft7kGS9OObJpuF8BOi+uOYoUjllqlYitVpvl424VtTXiZjgVpDmwY; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhZTU-0000Zs-7d for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:54:01 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:37:35 -0600 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:37:35 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110715033735.GA11321@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: boting straight into firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:54:02 -0000 --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:00:31PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages > progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a > concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most > hands free way method of going from power on to full screen > www/firefox.... is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and > then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do > not need rc.local) I don't know the process for setting that up off the top of my head. Perhaps a minimal window manager with only one workspace and the browser executed in your .xinitrc file would do the trick. I seem to recall there is a way to turn off access to TTY consoles, too. I wonder, though . . . why Firefox? Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4ftf8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWaOwCfXf4M4UacTw96yqWrXQi+X98w 8acAoL+s9odpvsbp5nS0na/6wmeohjLo =r0SX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv--