Thank you for your quick reply but no, I would like to accomplish this without using xdm or gdm, all hotkeys will be disabled..not only cntrl+alt+del. You're right..what you suggested was close..but I really do need netscape to exit by asking the password first. perhaps I need a perl/shell script or something? and maybe I should reask the questions but change to subject to "programmers... please help me?"
----- Original Message ----- From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: Re: how to automatically execute things? On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:02:27PM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: #disclaimer: i have never actually tried this. > Hoping someone can help me out with this..for example I want an ordinary > user that when he or she logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > 1.automatically starts x-window xdm or wdm sound like a safer option here. > 2.all hot keys will be disabled..ie cntrl+alt+del etc. touch /etc/shutdown.allow > 3.run netscape automatically and it will remain opened and it cannot be > closed without giving the correct password. the password part i have no idea, but i *think* you should be able to make it so quitting netscape will logout the user, which should be close to what you want no? i would use xdm for the login, this prevents the user from going back to console 1 (control-alt-F1 which cannot be disabled) and suspending X, which may or may not yield a shell depending on how you started X. create an .xsession file like so: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif.real that `should' cause netscape to be launched as the window manager, when netscape dies, the session ends and the user is logged out.
