Privacy

[Allen Ziegenfus]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:34:34 -0800
Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:

> Jim Woodruff <james.woodruff at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > My computer is accessed by the entire family and my kids friends.
> > Is there a way to password gnucash or its data files? I've searched
> > the help files and man pages without success.
> 
> Use Unix security:
> 
>   $ chmod 700 gnucashdir
> 
> 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.

Sorry if this is OT. 

AZ