multiple local user accounts?

[Luke Schierer]

Sec wrote:
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Support 
> mailing list > Support at pidgin.im > 
> http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >

As I sit here typing this, I am signed on with 2 AIM accounts, yahoo, 
ICQ, MSN, SILC, 2 jabber accounts, and an IRC account, all from the same 
instance of finch.  The same is possible with pidgin, and has been for 
years.

luke

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