Multiple users login

Have you tried Fast User Switching? I can't say 100% if it's available on the server edition, but it would be in System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options.

afiglee said:

I have Mac OS X server 10.6.3 and I want to be able for different users to login simultaneously and use XCode each in their own windows session.
Any ideas how to do that?

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You can't.

afiglee said:

Thank you, guys.
Indded it seems that infrastracture for multiple simultaneous logins in place,
but need some tweaking.
Thanks for the pointing to fast user switching - will dig in this direction

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Not graphical ones: Quartz basically only expects one active user at a time

Fast User Switching hangs my server when it is running headless (which is all of the time). For some reason it needs a monitor connected for it to work.

What I view as unfortunate is that I have to keep it logged in in order for some services to keep working properly (scheduled backups with SuperDuper, DynamicDNS, I suspect Plex, and iTunes if I were to use it's server). So it isn't possible to use the server as a general user login on another account.

Of course some people will point out that a server shouldn't be used for user logins anyway for security and stability reasons.

You can always have multiple shell logins, using the ssh command.