Re: [RFC] Fast-user-switching plans

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 23:44 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 00:45 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The one benefit of user connections is that they follow you if you back
> > up your homedir and switch machines :)  I don't think that's enough of a
> > benefit to keep them around though.
> 
> Also if you periodically update your OS - e.g installing a new Ubuntu
> release every six months. Stuff in $HOME stays - stuff in /etc doesn't.

Yup.  Though we could mitigate that by providing usable backup/restore
capability that dumps a bunch of keyfiles describing your connections
into a tarball or something.

Dan