Les Mikesell wrote: >On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 00:47, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > >>>>>>Oh, in a Un*x world I would not move them out of the user's home >>>>>>directory. Just organize better by identity within home. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>But why fight the native multiuser design with a workaround that >>>>>you had to use elsewhere? Just give every identity its own home. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>This is another thing I am looking at. But I would have to be logged >>>>into all of them pretty much at once. >>>> >>>>Un*x has always supported this. But gnome seems to be weak on this. >>>> >>>> >>>You can use the same approach you'd use for an account on a >>>different machine: >>> ssh -Y user at locahost programname >>>although you lose a bit of machine efficiency as a tradeoff >>>for not having to deal with special cases. >>> >>> >>oh, sneaky. I WILL have to try that.... >> >> > >I think I'd call it elegant simplicity instead of sneaky. Long >ago there was a lot of discussion of the concept of >'orthgonality' in unix tools, with the idea being that >things should work the same way regardless of context >so that learning them once will serve you in many >circumstances. (For example if you understand vi, you'll note >that there are only a couple of exceptions to the 'count, range, >action' scheme of commands - where count and range are optional). >That idea seems to have gotten lost in the GUI flavor-of-the-day >world where everyone thinks their context-sensitive system is >better than anything else and you should forget everything you >knew last week and learn a million special cases instead. > > > Preach it *LOUD*, brother :-) !!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051228/8741e4fe/attachment-0005.html>