Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> David Looney wrote:
>> Is there any way to set up login so that multiple username/password
>> pairs can be used to log into the same account (preferably from gdm) ?
>>
>> The alternative seems to be to duplicate the same home directory/user
>> settings for each user, but this seems quite wasteful when your talking
>> many users.
> 
> Really?  How much is in each home directory?  My initial settings stuff
> winds up under a megabyte.

Only about 1.3 MB, but up to ~800 users. Still not a lot of disk space,
but /home would get quite busy, and in addition anyone could possibly
see who else is a user (most usernames currently include complete
names), which is not desirable.

David Looney

-- 
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. - Groucho
Marx


-- 
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list

Reply via email to