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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:28PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> 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.

Please don't take our (my) earlier snippiness about your
desire to have a root account as mere Windows hatred. I
think we were just trying to inform you of all the issues
that come from having a root account, and it wasn't clear
that you had taken all of them into consideration.

Windows *does* do some things well. Fast User Switching
under XP is one of them. OS X has an equivalent. Linux
should have something similar. As far as I know, it doesn't
as of yet.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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http://laniels.org/
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