On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
>
> > Red Hat by default has 6 virtual terminals... reachable through
> > <ctrl><alt>-<F1-6>. X is usually spawned on a seventh console.
>
> Oh. Now I see what you mean... :)
>
> I was trying to imagine more than one person actually logging into console
> tty's at the same time. I was confused by the idea. Especially since I
> rarely consider that someone would walk away from a terminal without
> *logging out*
>
> hehehe
Nah, where people run into problems is when they're in X and decide
they need a root shell so they drop to VT2 and log in as root. When
they do that they loose ownership of the floppy and cdrom until they
re-login again.
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