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Multiple devices attached to one machine which operate independently of each other.

Multiseat X is where one machine is attached to several sets of keyboards, mice, and monitors, which can operate independently of each other -- each under the control of a different user. Contrast this with multi-head X, in which a single keyboard and mouse is associated with two or more screens. In theory, there are several different ways to achieve multi-seat; in practice there are very few approaches which are both simple and stable.

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How to delete a user & its home folder safely?

I just created a new user & its home folder & need to delete it now & also I cant find my old user's Downloads,Documents,Pictures,etc folder in /home/olduser & also .Xauthority file. Dont know how it deleted. I executed startx command by pressing…
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How can I set up Samba shares to only be accessed by certain users?

I have a RAID10 array mounted on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have created a few folders within the mount point and want the following functionality. There will be 4 users, 3 of them are windows users: 'one' 'two' & 'three'. 'four' is a media streamer…
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Run apt-get without sudo

This might be a very naive question, but I wanted to know how I could give multiple users access to a single computer without making them root users. How would I give them limitted sudo access such that they could still issue commands like sudo…
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Single server, multiple users, each with his own virtual machine

Our school system has a low budget to update our computers, so I've thought maybe I could buy only one server (a powerful one) and hookup 30 students to one server. On the server should be 30 Ubuntu virtual machines, each controlled by a different…
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How to change the default parent directory for a new users home folder?

I'm mostly asking this as it's apart of an assignment that asks me to. "configure the default settings of linux for when you create a new user, their home directories are in /project/users directory by default." I've already figured out how to set…
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Multiple users use linux pc at the same time

I have a powerful linux PC. Is it possible that more than one user use that PC at the same time while I will use it physically and others will use it remotely (each person will have different user and see different screen)? Can they login remotely…
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How to share byobu with multiple users?

The best way to learn and troubleshoot is to pair up with someone else on the internet via text based screensharing. Love the ergonomics of byobu for a single user at a single time. However when I want to share my terminal session with one or more…
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Synchronise user accounts over multiple systems

In my office I have 10 computers and all of them run Ubuntu. I have 20 employees each with their own login. Is it possible to set things up so that every employee can log in on any of the computers and access their own desktop (passwords, Gmail…
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Backup all home folders on usb disk and accessibility

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it, each with their own home folder. I have an USB disk that I want to use to backup all my home folders. When my disk auto mounts, it is not visible for every user. It seems to…
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Root-like directories

Forgive me if I understand the Linux file system wrong here. Can I add different root-like directories for users? Example; I want to sudo apt install ncar-ncl in a user named climate, so when I remove the user climate one day it'll remove everything…
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How can I back up files from multiple accounts?

How do I use Ubuntu One to backup files belonging to three different user accounts on my laptop - mine, my wife's and our business files, each of which has its own login account and therefore own copies of Documents, etc. When I try to backup (say)…
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With two simultaneous users, how much memory is consumed?

Basically, it's my personal system (running 10.10) where I often switch from myself to my other myself (one login is for personal purposes, and the other one is the working login). So I come to situation that both myself are logged onto the system…
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Creating startup program for all users 12.04 - only working for 1 user

In ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop, I'm trying to have chromium start up automatically for all users upon login. I did the following: sudo cp /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop ~/.config/autostart/ What happens is that chromium only starts…
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Give the same rights to two users

Let's say I have 2 users : user1 and user2 I would like to give user1 the same permissions as user2 but I don't want user2 having the same permission as user 1. Sorry for my english. Thank you
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Multiple User Account bit-torrent client

So I recently setup Ubuntu 12.04, and currently looking for a bit-torrent client where I can create multiple user accounts. The plan is to have more than 1 user accounts, and each user can monitor their activity via web-interface. So far after did a…
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