[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 Bill Bogstad
> 
> I frequently like to set things up so that I can simultaneously log into
> the same desktop configuration from multiple workstations.   It's fairly
> easy to set up file access (NFS) and authentication (LDAP or NIS) to allow
> logins and access to the same home directory.   Unfortunately, my
> experience in the past has been that modern Linux desktop system keep
> enough state in ones home directory that having two logins using the same
> set of configuration/state files at the same time is going to result in odd
> behavior.
> 
> Does anybody know if any version of GNOME, KDE, or equivalent system
> actively support such usage?

Nothing supports behavior like that, but very few things seem to have *real* problems.  I frequently encounter users who have multiple VNC sessions to the same machine, and when I tell them they shouldn't do that, they most often say "Oh, I didn't know."

Why don't you just create one session and reuse it?  For example, create a VNC session, and just keep connecting to the same VNC session from all your different clients?