Two different users on the same machine

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Wed Aug 6 16:21:54 UTC 2008


Aaron Konstam írta:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:37 -0400, Damon L. Chesser 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 at 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" &
>>>>         
>>> Thanks, Bill. Your suggestion of using the xterm command is a good
>>> one, but how can one give to USER2 a graphical X session, for
>>> instance, on CTRL+ALT+F8?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't have the thread start, but I found this:  gdm-user-switch-applet
>> yum install gdm-usr-switch-applet Add the applet to your gnome tool bar,
>> it will allow you to let another log on and keep your up and running.
>>
>>     
> Oh, Oh. When I run: yum install gdm-usr-switch-applet
> The response is it does not exist.
>   

It's gdm-user-switch-applet. (Note the missing 'e' in 'user'.)

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