Heads up for login managers

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Feb 12 19:10:58 UTC 2007


On Monday 12 February 2007 13:41, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > We use a cookie called "uid" and one called "gid".
>
> The problem is that these are not per-session; am not sure why that is
> so difficult to understand.

I just checked the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_User_Switching) and 
it says this:

"It allows users to switch between user accounts on a single PC without 
quitting applications and logging out."

So it seems to indicate that UID is the right granularity.

-Steve




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