Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 14:03:34 Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. A. set system for autologin >       B. start browser, go to desired page >       C. save session in Xfce >       D. on next power up, system would go to desired page Just for the record, and not because I think taht it would be of

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

mean a kiosk system, but how does the above quotation from him mean that? That's a best guest. Richard has already said that he want's to boot to a browser without human interference, No. I didn't. Really I didn't ;/ The OP asked how to "make system boot straight to browser connection&quo

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ted that Richard may mean a kiosk system, but how does the above quotation from him mean that? That's a best guest. Richard has already said that he want's to boot to a browser without human interference, No. I didn't. Really I didn't ;/ The OP asked how to "make system boot strai

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:20:05AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I'm > > > guessing) a machine to come

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On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > > > I have 2 machines. > > > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. > > > One is Jessie with Mate DE. > > > Desired user name to be

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Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 08:10:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: David Wright wrote: r>>> I don't know. I don't really understand your original question. It said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip] I have 2 machines. One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. One is

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On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 16:05:41 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >Squeeze Gnome2 is probably using gdm. What is the output of > > > > apt-get purge gdm > > That command structure is either *MALICIOUS* or sign of terminal ignorance. > Reading

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On Sunday 18 October 2015 23:21:53 David Wright wrote: > Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I'm > guessing) a machine to come up with its full Desktop Environment as if > the user "myexperiments" had sat at the console and typed in their > username and password. If

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On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > > I have 2 machines. > > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. > > One is Jessie with Mate DE. > > Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD] > > privileges. > > Power

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Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > David Wright wrote: > >Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > >>David Wright wrote: > >>>[snip] > >>>Were I to set up a machine at home to autologin, I would not want it > >>>to login as me, nor root, nor anonymous. I would configure a user

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On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 08:10:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > >I don't know. I don't really understand your original question. It > said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip] > > I have 2 machines. > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. > One is Jessie

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David Wright wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): David Wright wrote: [snip] Were I to set up a machine at home to autologin, I would not want it to login as me, nor root, nor anonymous. I would configure a user called, say, "kiosk" and that would be my "choice of which user

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On Sunday 18 October 2015 14:10:54 Richard Owlett wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > >> David Wright wrote: > >>> [snip] > >>> Were I to set up a machine at home to autologin, I would not want it > >>> to login as me, nor root, nor anonymous. I would

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On Saturday 17 October 2015 00:38:09 tom arnall wrote: > what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie > which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. Nothing. It provides one. Lisi > > On 10/7/15, tom arnall wrote: > > I want to

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Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only decade

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On Friday 16 October 2015 21:13:43 Richard Owlett wrote: > I skipped Wheezy for two reasons: >    Gnome3 default UI was unusable >    systemd was/is terra igcognita. Not using Wheezy to avoid systemd is novel. All you have to do to use Wheezy and avoid systemd is install a default Wheezy. > I

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On Fri 16 Oct 2015 at 17:49:01 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:46:16 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > > > How much EASIER it would be if you would only give in to the > > inevitable coming standardization on systemd. > > Are you aware how this sound, which

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David Wright wrote: Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): On Friday 16 October 2015 01:46:16 Joel Rees wrote: One problem is that some kiosk mode techniques assume that you really don't want to login at all, where others will require you to make a choice of which user login to auto-login

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On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:46:16 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > How much EASIER it would be if you would only give in to the > inevitable coming standardization on systemd. Are you aware how this sound, which bringsg to mind "We are systemd of Borg, resistance is futile"...

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On Friday 16 October 2015 01:46:16 Joel Rees wrote: > One problem is that some kiosk mode techniques assume that you really > don't want to login at all, where others will require you to make a > choice of which user login to auto-login as. Surely, if you have to make a choice it is no longer

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On 16/10/2015 01:46, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 gave no relevant links. A Google

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On Friday 16 October 2015 09:51:47 Brian wrote: > On Fri 16 Oct 2015 at 09:46:16 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> [snip] > > >> > > >> How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > > >>

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On Fri 16 Oct 2015 at 09:46:16 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > >> > >>

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Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Friday 16 October 2015 01:46:16 Joel Rees wrote: > > One problem is that some kiosk mode techniques assume that you really > > don't want to login at all, where others will require you to make a > > choice of which user login to auto-login as. > >

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what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. On 10/7/15, tom arnall wrote: > I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on > the PC, the system connects to the

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> On 10/7/15, tom arnall wrote: >> I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on >> the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser >> without a login or any other intervention by the user. >> >> There are no security issues. >> >> Is

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Quoting Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net): > David Wright wrote: > >Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > >>On Friday 16 October 2015 01:46:16 Joel Rees wrote: > >>>One problem is that some kiosk mode techniques assume that you really > >>>don't want to login at all, where others will

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On Thursday 15 October 2015 10:13:17 ??? wrote: :-)) Brian, I rarely laugh out loud at my computer. I did when I saw the sender of this mail. Lisi

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On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 03:29:38 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >[snip] > > > >How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > > > >http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 > >gave no relevant links. > > > >A Google search gave only decade old or DE

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Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links. I currently use Mate, but exploring other

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links. I currently use Mate, but exploring other desktops(avoiding Gnome

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? >> >> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 >> gave no relevant links. >> >> A Google search gave only

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On Mon 12 Oct 2015 at 09:57:54 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > > >> Runit does not require one change one's init system. That is why is > >> states it can run under sysv init OR replace the init

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Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: >> > >> >> Brian writes: >> >> >> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >>

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On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > > >> > >> Richard Owlett writes: > >> > >> > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] > >> > > >> > How to do an autologin? In a DE

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Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >> >> >> > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] >> >> > >> >> > How

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On Friday 09 October 2015 22:18:28 James Richardson wrote: > Runit does not require one change one's init system. That is why is > states it can run under sysv init OR replace the init system. What version are you running? Brian is assuming Jessie, I think. You appear to be assuming

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On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > > >> Brian writes: > >> > >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Richard Owlett writes: > >>

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Folks! thanks for your help. the expertise and helpfulness of this list is the reason i run Debian. hopefully one day i'll be able to make more of a contribution to the Debian community. regards, T -- Once its survival is on the line, a species will often find powers unimaginable in the days

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[resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:13:01 -0700 tom arnall wrote: I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser without a

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Richard Owlett writes: > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] > > Charlie Kravetz wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:13:01 -0700 >> tom arnall wrote: >> >>> I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on >>> the PC, the system connects to

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 10:37:58 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 > gave no relevant links. > > A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links. > > I currently use Mate, but

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Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:13:01 -0700 tom arnall wrote: I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser without a login or any other intervention by the user. There

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On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] > > > > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > > > > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 > > gave no relevant

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Brian wrote: On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: Richard Owlett writes: [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin=1 gave no relevant links. A

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On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:06:24 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > > >>Richard Owlett writes: > >> > >>>[resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] > >>> > >>>How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? >

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Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >> > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] >> > >> > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? >> > >> >

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On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:13:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on > the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser > without a login or any other intervention by the user. > > There are no security issues. > > Is

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On Thursday 08 October 2015 03:13:01 tom arnall wrote: > I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on > the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser > without a login or any other intervention by the user. > > There are no security issues. > > Is this

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:13:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on > the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser > without a login or any other intervention by the user. > > There are no security issues. > > Is

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:13:01 -0700 tom arnall wrote: >I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on >the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser >without a login or any other intervention by the user. > >There are no security issues.

make system boot straight to browser connection

I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser without a login or any other intervention by the user. There are no security issues. Is this doable?