From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 05:29:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD8816A415 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:29:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (hunter.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD9943D4C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:29:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26729; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:25:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from ppp-82-135-93-149.dynamic.mnet-online.de(82.135.93.149) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma026723; Tue, 19 Sep 06 07:25:32 +0200 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k8J5Sxwp015253; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:28:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to m.apitz@oclcpica.org using -f Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:28:59 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Perry Hutchison Message-ID: <20060919052859.GB14224@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20060918132520.GA8117@rebelion.Sisis.de> <10609181853.AA15913@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <10609181853.AA15913@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (i386) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:29:25 -0000 El día Monday, September 18, 2006 a las 11:53:29AM -0700, Perry Hutchison escribió: > It could likely be made to work, but offhand it sounds like > reinventing the wheel. Why not just let each user log in via > xdm, and have their .xsession bring up the MUA? Because the (mail-) users coming and leaving frecuently and launching each time a own KDE desktop take to much time. Thx for your feedback anyway. I came up with the idea to have one neutral user, say 'kiosk' which owns the desktop and the others say $ ssh -X user1@localhost kmail 2>/dev/null via small icons for 'user1', 'user2', ... matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/