Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:28:59 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail Message-ID: <20060919052859.GB14224@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <10609181853.AA15913@pluto.rain.com> References: <20060918132520.GA8117@rebelion.Sisis.de> <10609181853.AA15913@pluto.rain.com>
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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 <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/
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