Two different users on the same machine

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Aug 5 19:56:07 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:08 -0500, Aaron Konstam 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" &
> > On my F8 system under Gnome the option is: Applications->System Tools->
> > New Login. But it is not clear why you want to use this and for what
> > purpose. It looks like it allows you to login as a new user without
> > stopping the status of the old login.
> > 
> > The suggestions you received will allow another user login but so will
> > logging off and logging in again. So is the purpose you are trying to
> > achieve?
> 
> He already said it in the original post: to allow two users to use the
> machine at the same time. I interpret "at the same time" to mean "let
> someone log in to his own X session on the same physical screen without
> me having to log out of my session, or vice versa". It's called Fast
> User Switching. I used to use this all the time when the rest of my
> family didn't have computers of their own. I still use it on occasion to
> try something on Gnome without having to log out of KDE.
> 
> poc
> 
He did say that but that is not what I normally think of as two people
using the same computer at the same time. In your examples with your
family only one person is using the computer at a time. All it does is
not require anyone to formally log off. To me it is a feature that is
not really needed in any real sense so I was confused why he was so
anxious to do that,

In the environment where I used to system administrate it was common to
have 2, 3, 4 ,maybe 10 users using the computer at the same time .
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