Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 3 10:07:34 UTC 2009


Hi,

>> If you are using a normal installation of Xubuntu, just click on the
>> quit icon and then click on switch user. This is built in to Xubuntu
>> 8.04, 8.10, 9.04. If you are using 7.10 and earlier, it may not have
>> it, but then, it is time to upgrade soon.
>>
> Yes, works fine when you realise that "switch user" is a slight misnomer.

Whats wrong with that term ? It means to me exactly what it does - to 
switch users NOT to log them out. Also, I think it is partly named to 
match what this is called in windows, not to confuse switchers...

Chris





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