Multiple logon

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Thu Nov 20 20:34:24 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 13:30, Don wrote:
> While I'm logged on to one user id, can I log on as a different user, then
> switch/flip back and forth?
> 
> For example, I log on as user "don", but then want to log on as user "bob",
> but not have to log off "don"? When I log off "bob", I'd "return" to "don".
> 
> For anybody here with some IBM mainframe VM experience, this would be sort
> of like the "SESSION" command...

Couple of ways (at least)

su - username
This will change your current session to username and you log in as
normal.  exiting the shell will bring you back to the original session.

alt f[1-6] will give you a different virtual terminal (VT) for each key
and you can switch back and forth.  if you are in X it will be
Ctl-Alt-F[1-6]  alt-f7 to get back to x.

I use screen to do stuff on remote boxes occationally.  the cool thin
about screen is that you can exit and leave stuff running and log infrom
another box and reattach to you screen session.  in screen you can add
additional "screens" and toggle between them (man screen)

I was never any good at VM we were a TSO shop and i forget all that
stuff since it was over ten years ago so I can't say which is closer to
SESSION.

HTH

Bret 





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