Multiple logon

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, 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".

(tigger pts4) $ who
tdiehl   :0           Nov  7 00:54
tdiehl   pts/0        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/1        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/2        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/3        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/4        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/5        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/6        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/7        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/8        Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/10       Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/11       Nov  7 00:55
tdiehl   pts/12       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/13       Nov  9 01:02
tdiehl   pts/14       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/15       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/16       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/17       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/18       Nov  7 00:56
tdiehl   pts/19       Nov  7 00:56
root     pts/20       Nov  7 00:56
root     pts/21       Nov  7 00:56
bdiehl   pts/22       Nov  7 00:56
mdiehl   pts/23       Nov  7 00:56
brian    pts/24       Nov  7 00:56
tom      pts/25       Nov  7 00:56

Does this answer your question?? IOW switch to another tty and log on as whoever you
wish. You can also use su to switch to a different user within the same tty. 

HTH,

................Tom