More "Log-On" related questions

[Janina Sajka]

I haven't found this to be very much of a problem, though it certainly
could be one. For example, I typically have many lynx sessions running.

I did, however, want to say that I particularly appreciate how smart
mutt is about such things. It will happily switch write access to
whichever console has focus. Consequently, I used to go back and forth
between home and my office for weeks on end never logging out of mutt at
either site. Of course, I would also do a "$" command to sync the
current view to the actual mailbox.

Nowadays, I do things a bit differently. I have procmail sorting mail
into several folders, and I run screen to automatically open five of
these folders into a diffrent terminal view on console 1. I detach and
reattach this screen session depending on which room I'm currently
working in. Very handy.

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> 
> A note of caution about logging in twice as the same user. Be careful
> not to run the same application in two consoles as the same user, unless
> you are sure the application can deal with that okay. For instance, if
> you are running pine in one console, and then open another console as
> the same user and run another copy of pine, one of them will have "read
> only" access to your folders, and you will be unable to save or delete
> stuff. I normally keep lots of consoles open at once, but not as the
> same user.
> 
> C.H.
> 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ann K. Parsons wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Now, this question I can answer.  Yes, you can log on as yourself in
> >console 1 and as root in 2 or whatever.  You can log on as yourself in
> >two or three consoles at the same time if you choose.  I'm currently
> >logged into four consoles, One is where I'm running my emacs session.
> >One is where my current audio book is sitting.  One is where I log
> >onto the reflector, and one's for just stuff.  Linux is truly a
> >multitasking OS, it's not fake!
> >
> >You can even log in as yourself in a console and "su" to root if you
> >need to do that.
> >
> >However, the book is absolutely right.  You don't want to be root
> >unless you absolutely have to.  You *can* break things that way.
> >
> >Ann P.
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.