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Windows-XP like login system?
Hi, I've been trying out the liveCD version of knoppix. I am used an xp or nt style login - type in username and password, however with knoppix I can't seem to get a dialog box to show up at logon. I have been able to change root password and add users, I just don't know if it is possible to log on as these users now.
Thanks for your help!
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Can you do it? Maybe, but why would you? A live CD isn't really suited or intended to have multiple users. And Knoppix isn't really suitable for installing to disk. Even the main author, Klaus, has said this of versions before 5.0.1 and, while he apparently is addressing some of the problems in 5.0.1, from the number of hard disk install reports about 5.0.1 that we have seen already, I feel that 5.0.1 isn't quite "there" yet. On the other hand, if you install Debian (or other versions of Linux) intended for hard disk install, the acounts are set up for you right during install with your choice of users and passwords, and root can add new users cleanly easily.
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Thanks for the response -
As for why, I was planning on having several accounts using the livecd for people in my family (mainly users of Windows XP) who are used to logging on and having personalized settings. we don't have the hard disk space to do a hard-drive install so this is why I'm using the LiveCd, and using a usb key to store the config files ( Knoppix menu ->configure -> save knoppix configuration).
Would doing this be way too much trouble than it's worth?
Thanks
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Remaster it to add in the users, then point to the USB/diskette you use for storage to load config files.
Using a LiveCD as a main system is a good idea IMHO, and using the HDD as storage is something I may do when I get a laptop to save disk space, but outside of remastering the LiveCD, you'd have to manually go in, mount the USB stick (I think), then change the symlinks to point to the files on there, but I may be wrong.
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