On Tuesday 07 May 2002 9:40 am, Klemm wrote: > Some more > I want to make the life easier and still have some privacy > > We have 3 users (me, my wife and my mom) > I use computer for a lot of several purposes, the rest use for internet > and e-mail > > Can I do so that the computer automatically logs in as one user, but > still can keep the private things private and have some authentication > before opening mailbox (The rest is not so private). I also might want > to hide some catalogs from the others, but thats not so important.
The normal way of installing allows you to have this as standard. During the install you set up an account for each user. Each gets their own directory (ex windows users read folder) which cannot by read into by the others. Only root (the super-user) can have access to all files irrespective of where they are in the structure. It sounds like you chose options which disabled this during your install. Perhaps you should look at installing again. The decision point which covers this during the install is "Set root password". Do not click on the "no password" button (this button is evil and applies only to those that wish others to trash there computer). The next step, "Add a user" is where you put in each persons name and a password for each. Set up a user account for your own use here as well as your wife and mum. Thus your private photo collection and/or correspondence with your girlfriend is safe from wife and mother ;-) > user 1 - 4 mail accounts > user 2 - 2 mail accounts > user 3 - 1 mail account > > I use currently Evolution as I found it can handle several email > accounts in a very nice way . And I also used to use the tasks and > calendar in one place... (Outlook style) Evolution is on your disks. You can change profiles i believe. > Today we handle the case with 3 logon names... that is very complicated > (in & out all the time) > > > Any hints... maybe another program.. or some other ways to handle that ? > > Thanks for advise -- Michael
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