[ge-talk] Multiuser Idea

[Matthias Lindner]

Hi,

not shure if this list is still active.
Just want to share some thought i had, about mulituser.

It could be a good way to realize the whole system on base of image  
files.


one imagefile for the whole system wich is mounted read only
(so that it can´t modified easy [virus, hacker etc])
Systemupdate just need to replace the image file
.....

Then one image for each user.

so that you can "switch" between user (x to y) just with unmounting  
the old imagefile (from user x) and mounting the imagefile from user y.

But you also can logged in in as  two useres (just mount image file x  
and image file y)

Maybe there should be a rules like
... you only have rw acces to your "main" logined file. So every other  
account you log in are
only mounted with read acces


So installation of apps  for every user are just copies to there  
mounted image.

Of course there could be one main (or shared) image file for all the  
apps wich are share between all users.

the Images should have all the same diretory struckture wich could  
eventually "mapped" to the "real" system
so that the content of the application folder of the "main image file"  
and the content of the application folder of the "user x image file"
all mapped to /boot/apps or so

So that it is not to 	complicated for "Normal" User
He just sees only eg. one app folder wich contains everything... the  
systems manges throught the owner to wich images the data belongs

hopefully you understand this a little ;-)

god bless
Paradoxon (Matthias Lindner)