| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 01:48:07 |
| Subject: | Re: What to do with the quit option! and Multiuser Workbench |
Hi Everybody,
> What I mean by this is the quit option under Workbench in th title
> bar. I do not know whyit there its never actually worked, but it
> could be made to work couldnt it?. If someonecould come up with
> someway to alow the quit program to actually work (instead of me
> having to type reboot in the execute comand window!). When selected
> a small window could pop upasking if we want to rebot with the
> obvious yes/no buttons.
>
> This can then possibly be tied in with alowing workbench to have
> multiple users on one machine each with there own startup-
> sequence/user startup. A small comand could be placed in the startup
> sequence to alow the logging on of each user similar to windoze and
> it could ask for apassword aswell (to add an element of security)
> the program could then execute the relativeuser-startup. The quit
> could alow the user to log off and so the computer would not keep
> loading the same user each time if he does not log off properly.
>
> Is this possible in Workbenchs present state? is it even half
> possible? are there already programs
> that do this sort of thing already?
Sure it works, just boot from the workbench floppy disks and you can
quit workbench all you like, although all it does is close the
workbench window (or backdrop) and just leave you with a blank
screen, it doesn't reboot or anything
The only reason it doesn't work on your is because you have programs
running (patches like Magic Menu, MCP etc.) that need the workbench,
so you'd have to quit all of those first, and for what it does (dump
you in an empty screen with nothing to do anyway) it's not worth it.
Anyway why not get a program to add an option "reboot" in the menu? Or
how about pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga ? ;)
PS. you can have a multi-user system anyway, but without disabling the
early startup sequence anyone can come along, boot with no startup
sequence and have complete access to your amiga.
There is a multi-user file system on aminet, I tried it years ago, and
came to the conclusion that it was really more trouble then it's
worth.
See ya :)
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