Two different users on the same machine

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.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".

Thanks, Patrick. In my case, the Display Manager is kdm.

Paul