Two different users on the same machine

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 21:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: 
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> > >> I am running XFCE on F9, and I would like to know how to allow two
> > >> different users to login on my machine at the same time. On F8, I
> > >> remember a menu entry
> > >>
> > >> System --> New Login
> > >>
> > >> but I cannot find it on F9.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > > I'm not sure I understand the problem... You have a user coming in (over
> > > network?) and they can't login? Or what?
> > >
> > > If you just wan't a session as another user, you use
> > > "xterm -e su - USER2" &
> > 
> > Thanks, Bill. Your suggestion of using the xterm command is a good
> > one, but how can one give to USER2 a graphical X session, for
> > instance, on CTRL+ALT+F8?
> 
> Basically you need to run a separate instance of the X server on another
> virtual console. This is usually handled by the Display Manager (*not*
> the Desktop Manager). Possible display managers include kdm, gdm, xdm
> etc. (you can pretty much mix and match display managers and desktops,
> e.g. kdm+Gnome). You need to figure out which one you're using and check
> its manual, unless XFCE already has a built-in function for this as KDE
> and Gnome do.
> 
> Or just Google for "multiple x servers".
> 
> poc
> 
I am still unclear where the two users are. If the second user is on a
different machine this sounds like a job for vncserver and vncviewer.
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