Password-protecting fedora.

[Björn Persson]

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.

Ah, that's a nice program. I didn't know it existed. I wouldn't say 
fastest. Switching to a second X server that's already running is 
quicker (but of course that takes extra time at boot instead). At least 
it's easier than reconfiguring GDM, and it saves memory.

Björn Persson