On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:16:48PM +0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I once a saw a TV show featuring networked computers from Sun which allows users to
>identify/authenticate themselves using smart cards. It also allows the users to
>log-in from any computer in the network. If the case was that the user pulled out
>their cards from the reader while doing something (ie in the middle of editing a
>document), the computer will shutdown. When the user puts the card back in (or from
>any other computer) the system will resume to whatever the user was doing during the
>last time they were logged in (ie back to editing the same document)
>
> Is this possible in Linux?
>
this is possible in all flavors of *nix and Sun's is one of them. what
you actually saw are not computers but rather dumb terminals and the
reason they are able to move from one terminal to another is that they
are actually logged in the Sun box and not to those terminals. sort of
like issuing a "nohup" to suspend your processes even if you
disconnect.
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"In is out and out is in. But out is out and in is in."
-- Pumbaa
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