On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to 
> house-sit.  It is a last minute booking.  He is going at 5:30 in the 
> morning.  I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up with his 
> emails.  I have to keep it really simple or he will just freak out 
> when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't just lean over 
> and help..  I.T. = PANIC!
> 
> I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on which 
> there is Google as home page.  Browse if he wants.  Then click 
> on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email.  Then either (optimum 
> solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer him the chance 
> to sign in to his Gmail account.
> 
> But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook 
> and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else.  I can sign 
> into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and then in 
> future sign into his account from my account.  But I don't want that.  
> I want to sign straight into his account and leave it like that for 
> him.  Help!  Is anyone awake and on line?  Any ideas?
> 
In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and
that'll let you select "Sign out".

Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and
password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something like
that.

-Rob

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