Fast user switching from Davyd's GNOME 2.14 preview

[Michel Salim]

On 2/20/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Michel Salim (michel.salim at gmail.com) said:
> > Davyd Madeley has released his latest GNOME preview:
> > http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/
> >
> > and it has some interesting features, such as the new fast-user
> > switching interface resembling OS X's. I recall previous incarnations
> > of this feature being explicitly removed from Fedora's GNOME; would
> > that explain why as of now this feature is absent from the RPMs in
> > -devel ?
>
> Yes - basically, without finding a good, solid solution to device
> ownership (groups aren't it), having fast user switching on is
> very problematic.
>
My naive take on this is to preserve ownership on any partitions the
already-logged-in users have mounted, and to transfer PAM-managed
devices without mounted partitions to the new user?


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