On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Timothy S. Nelson<wayl...@wayland.id.au> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Angel Tsankov wrote: > >> I need to set up a workstation for use by two (or more) users. Each of them >> will have their own account and will use X with some desktop environment -- >> most probably Xfce -- to do their work. In this scenario, will it be >> possible for any of them to use his/her account on the console without >> having other users end their X sessions? > > If I understand correctly, you could do this: > 1. Ensure you set up something like xlock for each user > 2. Teach them how to use Ctrl+Alt+F7 (or whatever) to go to the different > virtual consoles. > 3. Either put a gdm/xdm/whatever on a few different consoles, or teach > them to use " startx -- :1 & " as their X starting command line > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, | > | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au | I am | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- > Version 3.12 > GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- > PE(+) Y+>++ PGP->+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI++++ D G+ e++>++++ h! y- > -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >
look at pam_namespace, should help especially for multiple users on one machine. (polyinstantiation) -- Justin P. Mattock _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg