GNUCash - Multi-user

[Jean-David Beyer]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Right now there's not a good multi-user gnucash solution.  You can
> have multiple users serially use gnucash, but not simultaneously.
> We're working to recitify that situation, but that wont be solved
> until at LEAST the next major release.
> 
Do I misunderstand the term multi-user?

I run Linux and have (at least) two users (each with his own login) that 
use GnuCash. Each has his own accounts and his own files (in particular, 
$HOME/GnuCash/*). I have never had it happen that both users were using 
the gnucash program at the same time, but it seems to me that it would 
work unless the gnucash implimentation is rather different from what I 
would imagine it to be. I would call what I was doing multi-user, and it 
seems inherent in Linux (or UNIX) that GnuCash would be multi-user in my 
sense of the term just because the OS is multi-user.

Could it be that the term multi-user is referring to multiple users trying 
to use the same database (files in somewhere/GnuCash/*)? I can see why 
that would not be implimented yet, but it is not clear that many would 
wish to use it that way.

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