user-switching behavior question

[shawn wilson]

... if you logout the current user it should bring you back to kdm (or xdm,
gdm, whatever) which can present you with users to click on.

On another note, I think by default /home is mask 022 meaning that anyone
can view everyone else's files. Might consider setting it as 033 or even
077
On Oct 26, 2010 12:35 AM, "Clay Weber" <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 25, 2010 01:14:05 pm Tom Bell wrote:
>> On 10/25/2010 6:38 AM, Paul Kaplan wrote:
>> > On Monday, October 25, 2010 02:00:30 am Tom Bell wrote:
>> >> On 10/24/2010 9:06 AM, Paul Kaplan wrote:
>> >>> One feature of a multi-user Windows system that I like is that when
the
>> >>> screen-saver kicks in after a few minutes and a user goes to wake up
>> >>> the system, they are presented with a list of users on the machine
and
>> >>> can then login to any account they choose. I find this useful on a
>> >>> family machine where noone remembers to logout but everyone wants to
>> >>> keep
>> >
>> > their
>> >
>> >>> userspace hidden from other users.
>> >>>
>> >>> Perhaps I'm not understanding quite how the user-switching applet in
>> >>> kubuntu works, but it looks like a user has to activiate it to get
the
>> >>> system to lock the current user account and present with new login
>> >>> screen.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is it possible to emulate the Windows configuration?
>> >>>
>> >>> Paul
>> >>
>> >> Any time you want open a terminal and type 'who' and it will list
>> >> everyone who is logged on
>> >> and what terminal they are logged in on.
>> >> You don't have to wait for the screen saver to kick in.
>> >> Good luck!
>> >>
>> >> Tom
>> >
>> > It's not that I'm looking to find out who's logged in. Rather that I'm
>> > trying to build a multi-user machine for the family that wakes from a
>> > sleep state to allow for selection of any user account and after a user
>> > walks away from the machine without logging out, returns to that
screen.
>> > It would be nice to allow multiple concurrent logins (although not
>> > specifically multiple concurrent users)...maybe a GUI to automate
>> > ALT+CTRL+F7/F8/F9
>> > functionality and that enforces passwords during the switch.
>> >
>> > Maybe an alternative solution is to find a way to force logout after a
>> > certain amount of non-use. Is that possible?
>> > Paul
>>
>> You might try System Settings --> Power Management --> General
>> Settings--> Settings and Profile
>> and click (tick) "Lock screen on resume". That should request the
>> password or logout of current user.
>> Since I have not done it myself (single-user) I have no idea exactly how
>> it works.
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Tom--
>>
> You can also set the screensaver to require a password after x amount of
time.
> The password dialog does provide the option of switching to a different
user,
> but I don't see a way to have a choice of users presented to you
>
>
> clay
>
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