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

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
> 
> While my office is in a building where only
> employees can enter, there are other people, such as cafeteria workers,
> cleaning crews, and building management people who can have physical
> access.  

Everybody here is right, but - 

At home, or at work, leaving your screen locked is good enough.  Nobody at home or at work, not even the janitor, is going to cryo-freeze your ram and try to get your porno.

If you leave your computer someplace where general members of the public can get it - You leave it at the mall, in a restaurant, etc, then Richard's right, you can't secure it by just locking the screen, nor by logging out.  You have to shut it off.  But nobody cares about this scenario.  It's just an esoteric point of paranoia, which you should care about only if you're an employee of the NSA or MI6.

In any event, this is certainly not useful discussion in relation to the OP, logging in simultaneously from multiple clients.