Hello All,

I'm rather frustrated with this. I want to lock the screen after booting the live CD of Knoppix v4.0. However all suggestions I've seen do *not* work for me.

First, without setting any passwords, KDE session lock is *not* disabled...I _can_ select it. However, the mouse just goes away and when I move the move...I'm back as normal. So I set both the root and knoppix user passwords and try again...same thing.

Second, I see about launching xscreensaver...not even there...at least not in the $PATH.

Next, I tried the suggestion of booting into text-only mode (knoppix 2, specifically) setting the passwords and launching 'kdm'. I get the login screen, attempt 'knoppix' and it "cycles" back to the login screen. The password is accepted because if not, I get an invalid login attempt. This does attempt a login, fails to launch KDE, and goes bounces me back to the login screen.

*sigh* Ideas? I'm looking for the best security I can. I'd like to have the screen locked and *not* have anyone able to walk up and "ctl-alt-f1" to switch to a root console also if possible.

--David