Someone's own account

A profile can play on a person's own login of this Linux machine, with their home, Steam and saves, and only their password or a device they signed in opens it.

Add the profileCopy Anchor Link

1. Turn on Reachable without logging in.
2. In the web console, open Profiles → Add profile, enter a Name, and pick Own desktop, then Existing account.
3. Type the account's User name and Their password, then press Add profile.

Punktfunk checks the password once against the machine's login and keeps none. The profile then plays in a background session beside whatever is on the monitor, with the box's games.

Any ordinary user of this machine can be one, a directory account such as jdoe@corp.example.com included. Not you, the owner, who has a profile already, and not an account another profile uses. On Windows Server, an existing account works differently: see Seats on Windows.

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When someone picks the profile, the Apple, Android, Linux and Windows apps ask for the account's password, on a TV or with a controller too. The prompt has one switch, off by default:

With the switch off, the device stays signed in while it plays and for 10 minutes after it leaves, at most a day. A match that fails, or a face or finger newly added to the device, brings the password prompt back, where the switch sets the unlock up again.

A desktop that isn't running starts only from the password or a face or finger match. A device that only stays signed in asks for the password then.

After 5 wrong passwords a device waits 15 minutes, and only 2 wrong passwords in 15 minutes reach the account, so a device can't lock its person out at the desk.

Who can open itCopy Anchor Link

• Opens it: the account's password, typed in the app on a paired device, and the devices on its signed-in list. At the machine itself, the person logs in as always.
• Can't: the console password, the card's Start, a browser, a paired device without the password, and any other profile.

Signed-in devicesCopy Anchor Link

The profile's card under Profiles lists each device signed in to it, as Signed in for now, Stays signed in or Unlocks with a fingerprint or face, with when it was last used.

• Sign out takes one device off the list, a lost phone for one. It needs the password on its next connect, and its face or finger unlock is gone.
• Sign out everywhere does the same for every device.

What runs thereCopy Anchor Link

• They come first. While that person is signed in at the machine, the profile doesn't start, and one that is running ends within seconds of their login. Their session is never touched.
• The desktop keeps running. It doesn't stop when idle, and Seats kept warm never starts it: only its person's unlock does. Stop on its card logs it off, and unsaved work there is lost.
• The password opens the wallet. When the typed password starts the desktop, KWallet opens with it on a machine whose own login opens KWallet. A desktop that a face or finger match started keeps the wallet locked until they type its password in the stream.
• Nothing is set up in the account. Punktfunk makes no user or group and doesn't prepare their home; the apps the profile runs write there what they always write. Remove ends only the profile's own session. The account and its files stay.
• The console manages nothing inside. The console adds no plugin, folder access or emulator there: Plugins says so for that profile. On Linux the person installs plugins from the Plugins page of their own console, and only those run, as them. It sets no hooks there. The profile's own library is kept on the host, not in the account. A game from the box's library starts without the commands the owner set to run before it, and a tile that is itself a command isn't offered: both would run the owner's command as that person.
• No password to update. Nothing stores it, so the card has no Update password…. If the account's password expires, sign in as that person once.

TroubleshootingCopy Anchor Link

The app says This profile needs its account password. Update Punktfunk on this device.Copy Anchor Link

That app can't ask for a password. Update it, or connect from the Apple, Android phone, Linux or Windows app.

Too many wrong passwords. Try again in 12 minutes.Copy Anchor Link

Too many wrong passwords reached this device or the account. Wait the time it names, then type the password again.