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@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 > 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 . -- ======================================================================= People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -- Abigail Van Buren ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
