Privacy

[Jim Woodruff]

Jim wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2004 01:34 pm, Jim Woodruff wrote:
> snip
> 
>>>that.
>>
>>Touche!, exactly my point.
>>
>>Jim
> 
> 
> As others have said, you can lock your session and switch to another X 
> session.
> Here's instructions on how to do it.
> http://linux.about.com/library/bl/open/newbie/blnewbie4.3.7.htm
> This is the best way to prevent one user from inadvertently messing up another 
> users settings.
> 
> It is not secure.  Physical access to the machine allows anyone to bypass the 
> operating system security features (unless you encrypt the filesystem, then 
> it's fairly secure).

Per the advice of many respondents, I have established a new user for my
financial files and am using gksu for the graphical interface to gnucash.

Thank you and all others for an educating (for me) discussion.

Jim

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