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(a)tmr.com>
> 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