Heads up for login managers

[Rex Dieter]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 13:41, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>> We use a cookie called "uid" and one called "gid".
>> The problem is that these are not per-session; am not sure why that is
>> so difficult to understand.
> 
> I just checked the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_User_Switching) and 
> it says this:
> 
> "It allows users to switch between user accounts on a single PC without 
> quitting applications and logging out."
> 
> So it seems to indicate that UID is the right granularity.

One could argue that this same technology could be used to switch the 
*same* user between gnome and kde sessions, for example. (:

-- Rex