FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail
Hello, Does someone has an idea about this: - login as user 'kiosk' into FreeBSD and getting a desktop in (for example KDE); - launch a graphical MUA (for example Kmail, or a browser) which supports more than one identity, let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, and each user must somehow authenticate itself for the usage of its identity, at least by typing in the password for this identity; - the MUA is fetching by POP3 or IMAP the mail from some host or the underlaying FreeBSD, but they don't get mixed-up with the mails of the other identities in the folders of the MUA; The background idea is just to use the desktop, i.e. loged in once, as a kiosk for reading/writing mails of a group of people. Thx 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail
- login as user 'kiosk' into FreeBSD and getting a desktop in (for example KDE); - launch a graphical MUA (for example Kmail, or a browser) which supports more than one identity, let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, and each user must somehow authenticate itself for the usage of its identity, at least by typing in the password for this identity; - the MUA is fetching by POP3 or IMAP the mail from some host or the underlaying FreeBSD, but they don't get mixed-up with the mails of the other identities in the folders of the MUA; The background idea is just to use the desktop, i.e. loged in once, as a kiosk for reading/writing mails of a group of people. 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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not set up a webmail interface, and lock down your favorite web browser as a kiosk? I've set up several kiosks using firefox and R-kiosk on top of FreeBSD for patrons at a local library. They have access to browse web pages and nothing more. You could even go so far as to edit the hosts file, use a proxy, or put them behind a firewall to restrict what sites they can visit (i.e. your webmail interface). cmh - -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFDv105D6v/aN2SK8RAt/6AKClgJBFEEzNrpQh5GSOrK2E8eNVIwCg6G80 xfh4t7Ml55YHVci8ILK0h24= =gX2+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
