All,
Passing on a few things learned in the course of this journey.
Apparently tux is hard coded into the SliTaz login screen; 'deluser tux', logout, login and there she blows ...
'adduser tux' continue to get error msg, bad pw too short, no matter the length of the pw entered ...
'adduser tux' creates a Linux user whereas original tux is a SliTaz user; have no idea if this makes any difference ...
?WHO CORRECTS faulty documentation; Reference: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:faq-login?
would still prefer a step-by-step method to manually remaster an iso that captures the full RAM environment