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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:22:54 +0430
From:      "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Internet kiosk style setup
Message-ID:  <BAY2-F6VhPx2g9AAlpA00005395@hotmail.com>

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>Can X / a window manager be run without a user login as an
>interactive display or am I barking up the wrong tree?
>(ie I dont want to have to add a winblows box just for the graphics.
>And I wont be specing any system without serious BSD firewalling etc)
>


Not really.  You can "auto log in" a particular user, and you can
run a program of your choosing automatically (either with or
without a window manager) but X needs to run as somebody
(even if that somebody is nobody  ;o)

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