Is it possible to have many users share the same account folder in HD Users?

Hi!
New guy here.
I'm trying to set up somekind of Schedule for me to be able to use my mac only in the morning and only in the evening.
Parental control seems to be able to allow me to do that if i set up two different accounts and assign time limits and schedules for each one. But the problem is that i need to run some programs on both accounts and keeping the same settings throughout both accounts. Is like if i wanted to have one single account but split in two different users.
Any help on this? Thanks in advance!

You have two accounts and you can enable fast user switching to quickly switch between active accounts.
Any program installed in the Applications folder is global, so either user can open the same program into memory (I think, haven't been confirmed, don't see why not) as it just copies it into memory.
However the users setting for each program is placed in the users account folder. Say for instance the programs preferences.
You can't run two instances of the program at the same time, nor will they continue running when you switch out of a user account, it just keeps it in memory.
The Users/Shared folder is just that, it's global file holding account to share when switching between user accounts, however if the file is already open on one user, it's not going to open for the other.
If you want to pernamently drop files into antother user account, you use the Public > Dropbox and it's one way like a mailbox, stick it in and only the other account can access it.
Hope this assists.
Would help to know why, perhaps there is a better solution.

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