[Xouvert-general] Feature Request: Multiple Simultaneous Logins

[Milo Hyson]

I don't know how many times someone here in the lab has bitched at me 
for locking a terminal and walking away from it for a few minutes. For 
security reasons we need to, but I understand the inconvenience of 
having to track the person down just to type in their password. What's 
needed is the ability to allow multiple people to simultaneously log-in 
to a system and easily be able to switch contexts to another user. WinXP 
already has this feature and I've heard that Apple is working on it for 
OSX. I talked with a few people in the XFree86 project who told me the 
security model (or rather the lack of one) would not permit such a 
feature as it would be all too easy for software to see what's on 
someone else's desktop and windows.

If Xouvert is being taken in radically new directions, I think this is 
one that needs to be seriously considered.

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Milo Hyson
CyberLife Labs