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Virtual Consoles with Opensolaris

Monday, September 29. 2008

One of the features missed by Linux Admins on Solaris is the absence of virtual consoles. Opensolaris Build 100 will bring this functionality to Solaris 10. There is even a nice feature called "Secure Switch":

Secure switch is enabled by default which means you need to enter the login user's password if switching to a login-ed session.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 15:09 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is nevada feature. I doubt if it is available for S10. At least not immediately

#1 Ghee Teo (Homepage) on 2008-09-29 17:47 (Reply)

It appears this feature is incomplete--the part about switching from an X Session to a text console is not integrated yet. That's the most important part! Most (or all) of the time you want to do this is when the X desktop is frozen and you want to recover.

#2 Dan Anderson (Homepage) on 2009-01-21 01:26 (Reply)

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