[OpenAFS] Multiple logins

Jaap Winius jwinius@umrk.nl
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:14:59 +0100


Quoting Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>:

> Is this enforcing a policy decision or just preventing technical  
> problems caused by multiple logins?

For my site it is strictly to prevent technical problems.

> I'm wondering because we us gnome on RHEL5 with AFS home directories  
> and multiple logins on different machines haven't been an issue, but  
> trying to login to gnome multiple times on the same machine does  
> cause error messages.

Interesting. Since Xfce is based on the GTK+ v2 toolkit (the same as  
GNOME), it may not suffer the problems that I anticipate. I'll run  
some tests later on when I have to opportunity and report the results.

Cheers,

Jaap