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 :) <div>On 6/30/05, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 BodyID:113589167.2.n.logpart (stored separately) -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- David Foster <a href="mailto:dbfoster@gmail.com">dbfoster@gmail.com</a>