Hello,

I have an interest in remastering a knoppix CD with a graphical greeter and passwords preset in the /etc/passwd file for a number of users, including root. I can't seem to figure this out.

Also I have a less urgent desire to switch the desktop to gnome, and use their greeter and also the /etc/passwd file. This is not as important as the above, I can stick with KDE if the gnome is too much of a problem.

So far I have (kind of) been able to get this working by installing the regular debian gnome packages, and changing the /etc/sysconfig/desktop entry, but the greeter is not authenticating properly, and something appears to be timing out on hostname lookups or ??? In other words, I'm dead in the water right now. It kind of looks like the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 id's do not match what the gdm is after, like something is missing ahead of the ":" (if that makes sense).

Thanks in advance for help on any of this. Mostly I just want to get a graphical greeter and passwds working.
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