[7885] in testers
Re: Mutt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Mar 9 02:30:19 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Shreevatsa R <vatsa@mit.edu>
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> Another observation is that the logout screen has a "Switch user" option,
> but it doesn't seem to work on the cluster machines. There's no harm in
> its remaining there, but if it's simple to make it go away, it would be
> nice to do so. :)
It's hard to make it go away, because you have to muck with the GUI
resources in the two or three places, not just the logout screen, that
offer "Switch User" as an option. However, it _is_ easy to make it die
everywhere with a cryptic error about the limit of flexible GDM servers,
which is what ought to be happening. You don't want someone to be logged
in in the background without you being aware of it, when you're on a
cluster machine. If it turns out there's a better way to disable switch
user, I'd be happy to see it replace the current hack.
If you're curious, the current hack is
http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/changeset/23474
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
