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xy

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Registered: 2015-04-08

Posts: 16

Switch user + lock screen. Multi-user... Which DM? Possible with LXDM?

Hey community,

I (as admin) am trying to get arch fully multi-user-compatible for >15 users, possibly 2-4 users logged in at the same time, just "switched" to other users.

I want the following:
user a logs in.
user b has to do some work, so user a switches to other user.
user b logs in.
user b logs out.
user a can continue his session.

I just took a look at LXDM yet because I use it for myself, but it has no own screen-lock.

So, what I got at the moment:
User switching works, but if you change the tty manually, you can get in (from example above) user a's session by pressing ctrl+alt+F1.
If user a wants to be safe, he has to "lock screen". Then xscreensaver locks the screen, you have to click manually on "new login" and everythings fine. But if you aren't as familiar with ttys and linux in general, you dont know how to change the tty. So you go the way through LXDM: choose user a, enter password. But then you have to enter it again for xscreensaver, as you locked the screen with it.

What I want:
User switching with automatically locking the screen, without the need to enter a password twice.

Is there a way to get multi-user-compatibility in a safe way? (sure there is.. but) with LXDM?

What do you suggest? I'm open for other DMs too. As I said, I just used LXDM because it works fine for my single user system.

Thank you, for your support! Nice forum by the way

edit: To not need a new topic for this, if someone can answer it here... LXDM doesnt update /var/log/wtmp for GUI sessions (just terminals entered), what means, last doesnt show GUI sessions at all. Is this a LXDM-thing or what do I have to do to keep track of who's logged in to the system?

Last edited by xy (2015-05-01 15:50:37)