On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:55 +0000, James wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng <at> wdc.com> writes:
> 
> >     I'm making a Freevo box based on Gentoo and currently 
> > everything's peachy except that since I start Freevo from "local"
> > it's being started and running as root. Which is BAD.
> 
> Yes, this is bad, but fixable. Have you made the user shell and 
> groups permissions? 
> Check your boot and default setting with: rc-update show

What exactly do you mean by this?? Do you mean making a new user "eg:
Freevo"?? 

I've not done that yet because I've not figured out how to make it
autologin.


> 
> > I want to know what are the alternative in getting a user to 
> login
> > automatically and start the freevo process.
> 
> Well, is this like a kiosk or do you want a functional desktop, 
> for users to exploit the network?
> Add a few extra steps to your thoughts and share the details with us.

It began as a kiosk, but now since I need to put a web browser in there,
it needs to have some form of functional desktop. (only the browser for
now actually)

Actually, I need to just get autologin to start and for user "freevo" to
start the freevo process and all should be OK.


> 
> James
> 
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