[Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

When you've got maybe 2 productive hours available in a given day,
it makes so much sense to spend 60-90 minutes of that time restoring
your previous context before continuing your work. It's especially helpful
to do this between each and every bathroom break.


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 +0000
>> "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> .....
>>
>> Personally? I think this is all barking up the wrong tree. Walking away
>> from a workstation and "forgetting" to log out is a bad practice. Don't
>> cater to it.
>>
>
> I think a similar argument could be made about screen locking.    Users
> should just be "educated" to log out every time they
> go to the bathroom.
>
> I am considering education as an option in one of my use cases; but I have
> many other things that I'm trying to teach my 8 year old that are a higher
> priority.
>
> Bill Bogstad
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