> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Morgan [mailto:matt.morgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:08 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Password-protecting fedora. > > > I was talking about gdmflexiserver. In case it wasn't clear > from the part > where I said "But I forget what it's called," I couldn't > remember what it > was called :-). Fortunately a few other people wrote in about > it as well. > > Yes, there are lots of ways to have more than one account > loged into Unix > at the same time. Score one for Bjorn. gdmflexiserver makes it really > easy, is the main reason I mentioned it. I thought it might help the > original poster, who was looking for a way to give people > access to the > computer without them seeing his mail. The combination of a > guest account > with a new login via gdmflexiserver would probably be the > fastest/safest > way to so what he wants. <SNIP> Talking about guest users. ANyone has any pointers on how, specifically to create a guest user? I mean, it must just be able to perform/access _normal_ stuffs (eg: web browsing, office etc) and not have access to anything else? Main keyword here I guess is _very_limited_access. Even more restrictive than normal users. (since I presume that the user/password combo would be guest/guest) ??? > > > Matt Morgan wrote: > > > >> I don't know how much will help the original poster, but ... does > >> Fedora yet have that tool where you can have multiple > people logged > >> in at once, analogous to Windows XP? I have it in > Mandrake at home (I > >> think--I never use it). But I forget what it's called. > > > > Was there ever a time when a Unix system could *not* have multiple > > people logged in at once? > > > > Björn Persson > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
