FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail

[Matthias Apitz]

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 at localhost kmail 2>/dev/null

via small icons for 'user1', 'user2', ...

	matthias 

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