Two different users on the same machine

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 01:47:49 UTC 2008


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?

Basically you need to run a separate instance of the X server on another
virtual console. This is usually handled by the Display Manager (*not*
the Desktop Manager). Possible display managers include kdm, gdm, xdm
etc. (you can pretty much mix and match display managers and desktops,
e.g. kdm+Gnome). You need to figure out which one you're using and check
its manual, unless XFCE already has a built-in function for this as KDE
and Gnome do.

Or just Google for "multiple x servers".

poc




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