Password-protecting fedora.

Ow Mun Heng ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Wed Mar 10 02:42:32 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jansen [mailto:jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:16 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Password-protecting fedora.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:08:10AM -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Great! Wouldn't it be great if features like this were easier to find,
> e.g a menu entry, man page etc? Or is it supposed to be an 
> undocumented
> feature?

Under Gnome -> Menu->System Tools-> New Login


 





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