* Configuration via preseeding You can configure nodm via debconf preseeding, so that the package will install without asking any question, and doing what you want. To do so, before installing the package you can create a file similar to the output of debconf-get-selections, and run debconf-set-selections with it. For example, in order to have nodm start as the user 'kiosk', you can save this file as nodm.preseed: # Activate nodm (which is the default, but this suppresses the debconf question) nodm nodm/enabled boolean true # Login the session as user 'kiosk' nodm nodm/user string kiosk And then run 'debconf-set-selections nodm.preseed' before installing the package.