on Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:26:20PM -0800, Rod Roark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 03:07 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm looking for examples illustrating the flexibility possible with > > GNU/Linux. > > Here's a very simple one that I encountered a couple of days > ago. > > With Linux and X you can have multiple user logins running programs on > a single graphical desktop.
Via Xnest or VNC, say? Or even within a single X session. Hell, all of the above, right ;-) > This is handy if you want to run multiple instances of a web > application that uses cookies to keep track of sessions... since for a > given web server and client user, there is only one cookie repository. > While Mozilla supports multiple user profiles, it doesn't let you run > them concurrently from one login. Quite. Good point. > This particular case was a doctor who wanted to work with several > patients at once, running a web application that's not designed for > it. > > As far as I know, you can't do that with Windows. There *is* a "run-as" feature in recent NT-based legacy MS Windows releases, but I'm not entirely sure of its functionality. I *do* know that legacy MS Windows' SMB/CIFS networking authentication is inextricably bound to "single user-per-desktop", and doesn't allow a given box to be authenticated as multiple users for network shares. Or at least that's my understanding. Too, in Domain mode, "Fast User Switching" isn't supported -- only Workgroup mode. Nick Petreley's written on that one a few times. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? This suggests a more troubled future for Gnome than I had imagined. - Chip Salzenberg, on GNOME developer attitudes http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2004-January/008588.html
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