  <chapter id="goscustdesk-90">
    <title>Setting Session Sharing Preferences</title>
    <para>The <application>Remote Desktop</application> preference tool enables you to share a GNOME Desktop session
between multiple users, and to set session-sharing preferences.</para>
    <para><xref linkend="goscustdesk-TBL-91"/> lists the session-sharing preferences
that you can set. These preferences have a direct impact on the security of
your system.</para>
    <table frame="topbot" id="goscustdesk-TBL-91">
      <title>Session Sharing Preferences</title>
      <tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
        <colspec colname="colspec18" colwidth="19.21*"/>
        <colspec colname="colspec19" colwidth="46.79*"/>
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="1">
              <para>Dialog Element</para>
            </entry>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="1">
              <para>Description</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="0" valign="top">
              <para>
                <guilabel>Allow other
users to view your desktop</guilabel>
              </para>
            </entry>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="0" valign="top">
              <para>Select this option to enable remote users to view your
session. All keyboard, pointer, and clipboard events from the remote user
are ignored.</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="0" valign="top">
              <para>
                <guilabel>Allow other
users to control your desktop</guilabel>
              </para>
            </entry>
            <entry colsep="0" rowsep="0" valign="top">
              <para>Select this option to enable other to access and control
your session from a remote location.</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry colname="colspec18" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>
                <guilabel>Users
can view your desktop using this command:</guilabel>
                
              </para>
            </entry>
            <entry colname="colspec19" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>Click on the highlighted text to system address by email to
a remote user.</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry colname="colspec18" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>
                <guilabel>When
a user tries to view or control your desktop</guilabel>
              </para>
            </entry>
            <entry colname="colspec19" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>Select the following security
considerations when a user tries to view or control your session:<itemizedlist><listitem><para><guilabel>Ask you for confirmation:</guilabel> Select this
option if you want remote users to ask you for confirmation when they want
to share your session. This option enables you to be aware of other users
who connect to your session. You can also decide what time is suitable for
the remote user to connect to your session.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Require the user to enter this password:</guilabel>
Select this option to authenticate the remote user if authentication is used.
This option provides an extra level of security.</para></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
            </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry colname="colspec18" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>
                <guilabel>Password</guilabel>
              </para>
            </entry>
            <entry colname="colspec19" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <para>Enter the password that the client who attempts to view or control your session
must enter.</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>

</chapter>