Privacy

[Josh Sled]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 08:50, Allen Ziegenfus wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:34:34 -0800 Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:
> > Log out when you're not using the machine. Give each member of your
> > family and their friends their own account.
> > 
> 
> How do people  actually do this in practice? I long for fast user
> switching ala XP or OS X where you can leave your apps running while
> someone else logs on. The only way I've heard of to do it with Linux is
> to run more than one X server process.

I've done that before, and besides the memory util, there were wacky
display issues with X.  OTOH, it was pretty easy to setup, and wicked
cool to be able to Alt-F1 to my desktop and Alt-F2 to my roommates. :)

I think the best suggestion so far is to create a gnucash user/home
directory:

% su - root
# <root password>
$ adduser 'gnucash'
$ cd ~gnucash
$ chmod 700 ~gnucash
% exit

And, when one wants to run gnucash:
% su - gnucash -c 'gnucash'
# <gnucash-user password>

[switching-user to the 'gnucash' user, and immediately running gnucash].

...jsled

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