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@xxxxxxx> > > 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
