Having multiple X users on the console

[Justin Mattock]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Timothy S. Nelson<wayland at wayland.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Angel Tsankov wrote:
>
>> I need to set up a workstation for use by two (or more) users.  Each of them
>> will have their own account and will use X with some desktop environment --
>> most probably Xfce -- to do their work.  In this scenario, will it be
>> possible for any of them to use his/her account on the console without
>> having other users end their X sessions?
>
>        If I understand correctly, you could do this:
> 1.      Ensure you set up something like xlock for each user
> 2.      Teach them how to use Ctrl+Alt+F7 (or whatever) to go to the different
>        virtual consoles.
> 3.      Either put a gdm/xdm/whatever on a few different consoles, or teach
>        them to use " startx -- :1 & " as their X starting command line
>
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look at pam_namespace,
should help especially for
multiple users on one machine.
(polyinstantiation)


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Justin P. Mattock