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



> From: John Abreau [mailto:abreauj at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 10:24 AM
> 
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why is this a discussion?  Why wouldn't you just lock the screen, or
> suspend/resume a remote session, rather than killing everything?
> >
> 
> Earlier in the thread, someone asserted that locking the screen was
> not good enough, and that completely logging out every time you walk
> away from the computer was the One True Faith.

hehehe, I must have auto-deleted that message preemptively.   ;-)




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