On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 13:30, 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". > > For anybody here with some IBM mainframe VM experience, this would be sort > of like the "SESSION" command... Couple of ways (at least) su - username This will change your current session to username and you log in as normal. exiting the shell will bring you back to the original session. alt f[1-6] will give you a different virtual terminal (VT) for each key and you can switch back and forth. if you are in X it will be Ctl-Alt-F[1-6] alt-f7 to get back to x. I use screen to do stuff on remote boxes occationally. the cool thin about screen is that you can exit and leave stuff running and log infrom another box and reattach to you screen session. in screen you can add additional "screens" and toggle between them (man screen) I was never any good at VM we were a TSO shop and i forget all that stuff since it was over ten years ago so I can't say which is closer to SESSION. HTH Bret
