Room with a View

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1 total messages Started by dave Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:53

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Author: dave
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:53

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Having recently installed News on my NeXT, I found myself frequently logging out as
"dave" and logging back in again as "root" to do system administration. Now to switch
back and forth like this is time consuming. And you have to re-create your window
environment each time. (I know about su, but the goal is to use the GUI as much
as possible).

So wouldn't it be nice if you could just switch between two different login environments
just by clicking on an icon? Each of these could be thought of as being rooms in
your cyberhouse, and the screen is the view in the current room. Say I log on
initially as "dave". When I want to do some sys admin, I click on an icon that represents
the door into other logins. First time it prompts me for the root password and then the screen
switches to the root login. Clicking on another icon takes me back to "dave". The advantage
is that each switch would then be immediate and would preserve all the windows you've
set up. It would also encourage you to use different login id's for different tasks,
like having your study separate from your sitting room.

It should be pretty easy to implement.

Maybe we could have it in 4.0?

Dave Griffiths

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