Multiple user accounts

OK: Here's my idea.

Currently, the only version of RISC OS to offer multiple user accounts is the RISC OS 4.xx Select/Adjust branch.

But what if an easy, straightforward, logical system could be put together?

The idea is as follows:

On system start, the user is asked for their username (and password? unimportant at the moment). The system then sets a path ie: Jymbob$Path to ADFS::4.$.Users.Jymbob. and adds an icon to the iconbar to open Jymbob:

For normal users, the HardDisc4 icon linking to <root$dir> is removed.

You can then install apps in Jymbob:Apps, and add to apps at startup, save documents in Jymbob:Work etc.

Global apps could be set to <root$dir>.Apps, and added to the iconbar Apps in the same way.

In other words: any normal user will have access from the iconbar to Username:whatever

Administrative users would also have access to <Root$Dir>

System-wide resources would remain as they are, given that the drive is hidden, not unmounted.

Obviously, this is only a preliminary idea, but it's a start, it uses built-in features of RISC OS, and could be implemented in any modern !Boot structure.

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