[nflug] Lost ability to login as different user

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Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net> wrote:
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>>You know I was wondering, if instead of login in as a different user, if 
>>there might be a way to use one of the other virtual terminals as 
>>another graphical login. Say I've got my workstation screen locked. My 
>>wife or son wants to go on. I'm not home or I don't want to unlock my 
>>screen. If they hit say ctrl + alt +F5 they could get a new instance of 
>>[xdm | kdm | gdm] and login. when I come back to my workstation I hit 
>>ctrl + alt +F7 and unlock the screen which was never logged out of.
>>Is this possible?
>>Bob
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>Yup, anything's possible..  What you need to do is to check around in /etc/X11/
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>the configuration of it depends on which graphical login manager you use (xdm,
>gdm, kdm or other)
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>for example if you use GDM, edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf there is a section
>called "[servers]"  In there typically you'll see "0=Standard"  This means
>start the X server on display 0.0 (the default first one).  If you uncomment
>the next line of "1=Standard" as well two gdm's should start, one available on
>Ctrl-Alt-F7 and another on Ctrl-Alt-F8.  I jsut tested this and it works OK. 
>Beware though that Xscreensaver MIGHT prevent the ctrl-Alt-Fx sequence as a
>security measure,  try it as I think that's optional and configured by an
>Xresource file.
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>Fomr kdm, xdm and entrance the sequence above should be similar,  check the
>files as an experiment to see if you can figure it out based on the above
>example..
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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Nice one Dave. Your becoming the one on this list that uses the most of 
my paper! This one got printed for future reference! Thanks
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