multiple local user accounts?

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This need not be mulitple person. The same person can have multiple accounts. 
I think it would be great to have this feature added.


----- Original Message -----
From: Etan Reisner 
To: netbean3r ,support at pidgin.im
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008
Subject: Re: multiple local user accounts?

> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:00:01PM -0800, netbean3r wrote:
> >
> > Can multiple local user accounts be set up on Pidgin? I am switching from
> > Trillian and this feature is absolutely essential for me: each time Pidgin
> > is opened, a local (to the Pidgin installation) account must be selected
> > (with optional password protection), and each account has unique IM 
> accounts
> > associated with it. As it stands, Pidgin automatically retains data for 
> the
> > IM accounts set up and that can be accessed as soon as the application is
> > opened. Any solutions? My apologies if this has already been covered
> > somewhere; I looked and didn't find it.
> 
> pidgin is not designed for multiple person use, it is designed to let your
> operating system handle details like that, for people for whom that is not
> possible pidgin has the -c command line flag with which it can be told to
> use alternate configuration locations. There is no provision for applying
> password protection to those configuration locations though.
> 
> -Etan
> 
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