Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:46 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:53 +0000, Stef Walter wrote:
> > This may be a dumb question, but I'm wondering if we support (or it is a
> > goal to support) multiple sessions for the same user in GNOME.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell a lot of GNOME software doesn't currently take that
> > into account. I'm working on gnome-keyring-daemon, and I'm wondering if
> > I need to keep multiple sessions in mind or just take the much simpler
> > approach of one session per user.
> 
> We certainly get a lot of bug reports about them, so I think we should
> support them as well as is possible. 
> 
> Historically redhat has had a bunch of these from customers where each
> user have multiple machines with different versions of the distro
> installed, but using a shared homedir. They need to use multiple
> machines because they work on multiple projects at the same time, and
> each project has standardized on a specific set of software releases.

Novell gets this kind of issue as well, with the addtional use case of
things like "I left my self logged in and tried to VNC to my desktop".

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.