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Good afternoon all.

I installed KDE 3.2 yesterday on my Mandrake 9.2 system. However all is not fine with the world. For a couple of hours yesterday I could not get into KDE using my user account. I had both auto login and password not required features enabled on my system, and would get the following message:

"Authenticating traveller...
Authentication failed."

Upon pressing OK, I would be at the graphical login screen. Selecting my username, typing in the password, and pressing "Login", instead of sending me to KDE, dumped me into ICEWM (my other desktop manager) instead. In looking through the bug database regarding this problem it was recommended that I check /etc/pam.d for the existence of either kdm-np, gdm-np, or xdm-np, dependent upon whether I was using kdm, gdm, or xdm. It seems I have xdm installed.

Following the instructions in the bug database, I created the -np file it claimed to need and rebooted. Now, when I go to graphical login I still get:

"Authenticating traveller...
Authentication failed."

And when I press OK I get to the login screen. This time around though, entering username and password allows me to get into KDE. So I have made major progress here in that KDE is working for my username, but I am still having issues on the auto login front, auto login being the only part of KDE 3.2 still not working.

For the short term, I have disabled both passwordless and auto-login features, but I think it's a niggling thing that I can't quite figure out how to get the blasted thing working right. In retrospect though, this niggling thing might well be a good thing...to enforce the security that Linux is noted for.

May I please have some help trying to resolve this issue? I'm sure I've not thought of everything involving this issue, but the hours I've spent searching the KDE bug database, Google, and the mailing lists on Usenet haven't given me a clue as to how to fix this.

On an unrelated note, my only other question is this: are there any basic mouse themes that have enlarged cursors? It seems that there is no option on my mouse configuration to allow me to expand the cursor size. I've already checked out KDE-Look, and they didn't have anything that really tickled my fancy.

I still haven't figured out why mouse cursors can't be enlarged, but suspect it has something to do with the fact that entire themes can be easily downloaded and installed in KDE. I did solve my auto-logon issue though. Mandrake's kdm implementation in MDK 10.0RC1, which is a seperate package, doesn't have the user authentication failure problem of the native KDE kdm client. Weird eh?