That will take you to a shell prompt where you can specify the username and password. TIP: If the switch user option is not available, press the CTRL + ALT + F2 keys.

If you select switch user, you will specify the username and password of the user while preserving your session and all your running processes. Doing this will terminate your session and kill all your running sessions Once you select log out, the system will navigate you to a login window to specify the user’s username and password you wish to use. Select logout or switch user from the dropdown menu -this may be unavailable depending on the version you are running.

On Ubuntu, navigate to the top bar and click on the Power Icon. If you run Ubuntu Desktop with a graphical desktop environment such as Gnome, you can easily switch users. This tutorial will go over various ways to switch users from the terminal and the graphical environment. Linux is a multi-user operating system that means it allows more than one user to log in and perform operations without affecting other users in the system.

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