Userland: Passwd persistence

[DevelopedLogic]

Changing the user password with passwd has no effect.

[AdamMatthewLTM]

@DevelopedLogic ,

Thank you for your post. At the moment changing passwords has not been implemented yet but will be in future releases. For now the default password will be 'userland' and will persist across session terminations.

I will go ahead and flag this as a requested feature implementation, but due to its ubiquity may I recommend that this issue be closed for now? If you feel this should remain open please reply here with a brief reason and I will go ahead and leave it open.

Thanks,
-Adam

[DevelopedLogic]

May I recommend it remains open so people see it on the opened issue list, but recommend to users that instead of leaving a comment such as "I agree, please do this!" they simply place a thumbs up on the original comment, unless the users require putting additional detail?

[AdamMatthewLTM]

Thanks for the suggestion, let's go ahead and do that.

To other users who may read this thread:

Unless you have a specific suggestion for an implementation relating to userland passwords, please thumbs up the original comment if you feel it should obtain higher priority.

Thanks all for your understanding,
-Adam

[iammeat]

Since we are currently unable to change the default password, can I suggest it is modified to be more secure please?

[ibrado]

@iammeat You could use mkpasswd -m sha512 to generate the replacement password field for /etc/shadow. Install toybox from http://landley.net/toybox/bin/ if you don't have another box with mkpasswd.

[iammeat]

@ibrado Perfect. I'll do that. Thanks 👍

[AdamMatthewLTM]

This feature has now been implemented, if anyone experiences issues with their saved passwords please open up a new issue with the appropriate information. Thank you.