Re: Fast user switching from Davyd's GNOME 2.14 preview

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On 2/20/06, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michel Salim (michel.salim@xxxxxxxxx) said:
> > Davyd Madeley has released his latest GNOME preview:
> > http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/
> >
> > and it has some interesting features, such as the new fast-user
> > switching interface resembling OS X's. I recall previous incarnations
> > of this feature being explicitly removed from Fedora's GNOME; would
> > that explain why as of now this feature is absent from the RPMs in
> > -devel ?
>
> Yes - basically, without finding a good, solid solution to device
> ownership (groups aren't it), having fast user switching on is
> very problematic.
>
My naive take on this is to preserve ownership on any partitions the
already-logged-in users have mounted, and to transfer PAM-managed
devices without mounted partitions to the new user?


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Michel Salim
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~msalim
http://the-dubois-papers.blogspot.com/

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