Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)

To: Derek Broughton <derek_broughton@hotmail.com>
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
From: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:49:00 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020624204900.GB17408@bombadil.xmldesign.de>
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References: <[🔎] 200206241803.g5OI3xsj030724@suiko.acc.umu.se> <[🔎] y68ofe0cw7g.fsf@multics.mit.edu> <[🔎] OE36U7QF4rAJcJJRc6100019d52@hotmail.com>

> I'm lost.  What's the big deal with a login manager?  kdm or xdm (the only
> ones I'm familiar with, I'm sure there's a gdm and many others).  The X
> security model is really friendly with these.

In fact GDM will setup Icons when you have xnest installed, so you can
make a nested Login. Once his girlfriend loggs off he'll get his desktop
back. All apps continue running in the background.

Greetings,
Erich

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