Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo
John Hubbard
ender8282 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 2 20:45:24 UTC 2009
Lou Katz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:22:04PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:06 +0000, Chris G wrote:
>>
>>> ... and then you end up with all sorts of convoluted X authentication
>>> errors.
>>>
>> Not when you use the Ubuntu-provided ways (or know what you are doing if
>> you don't): if you use 8.10, you should have the fast-user-switch applet
>> on the top toolbar by default (labeled "Users". In older Ubuntu
>> versions, go to system -> shut down. You should have a "switch user"
>> button in the menu that this brings up.
>>
>
> I don't think this works if you are not running gnome. I am using xfce.
>
My system was originally an ubuntu 8.04-server and I installed
xubuntu-desktop and it allowed me to switch users without problems.
After two users are logged in ctrl + alt +f7/f8 switches back and forth
between the two accounts. Even if you are running xfce I think that it
still uses the gnome desktop manager (gdm) but I might be wrong on that.
--
-john
To be or not to be, that is the question
2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
0b11000100 || !0b11000100
0b11000100 || 0b00111011
0b11111111
255, that is the answer.
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