Re: Privacy

[Jens Ansorg <liste ja-web de>]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:11 +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:26 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Jody, sorry, I'll try to recap succinctly:
> > 
> > -- User is running gnome or kde desktop at home, and shares the
> >    desktop with the rest of the family.
> > -- User wants to password-protect thier gnucash data sets (and/or
> >    thier word docs and or thier pornography/or whatever) so that
> >    the rest of the family (or at least the kids) don't get access.
> 
> 
> So what we *really* want in a star-trek solution is a good
> implementation of fast user switching, like mac os x (and windows?), and
> there won't be any problems in having everybody protect their data by
> being different users. Or are there problems with that too?
> 

hmm, on my Gentoo boxes I have 
"Applications"
	"System Tools"
		"New Login"
		"New Login in nested Window"


I often use the latter to do admin stuff logged in as root while still
being logged in as user on the other screen 
=> really fast user switching :)



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