is there anyway to for me to allow another user to login same time as me

David Foster dbfoster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 21:38:50 UTC 2005


This deffinatly looks like the best way of doing it. It opens a new gdm 
session at CTR+ALT+F8. Then CTR+ALT+F7 to get back to your running session. 
It does hog a bit of memory though :)


On 6/30/05, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 23:06 +0500 schrieb Mustafa Abbasi:
> > i have one computer for the entire family.
> > i am continously working either downloading or something else. thing
> > which do not recive logginf out well.
> > i was wondering if my parents could login without me logging out and
> > my procceses stopping.
> > you know like in windows xp.
> > don't think i am trying to copy windows and bash me please.
> > this would essentially solve many probs
> > and prevent my parent from destroying the computer by giving them less
> > powers.
> for the "login on top" thing, look in Applications->System tools->New
> Login
> 
> for the destruction prevention, add a user for your parent via the GUI
> tool, and make sure he is not in the admin group.
> 
> ciao
> oli
> 
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