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[Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and there is no UI for changing passwords yet and the greeter won't
prompt you for your password if you set one with 'passwd' yet.  Those UI
changes are coming too, but haven't landed quite yet.


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> OK, this change landed!  Next image will have a blank password for the
> phablet user, though you can use 'passwd' to set a new one if you like.
>  Note that sudo should still work with a blank password.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello!  I'm looking at enabling passwords for users in Touch.  One thing
>> this means is that we probably shouldn't keep setting the user's default
>> password to 'phablet', since customers won't expect that.  :)
>>
>> Before I changed the system to use a blank password by default, I wanted
>> to give a heads up.  It will mean that you can't use sudo over ssh (but I
>> will patch phablet-shell to allow sudo without a password to work around
>> that).
>>
>> Maybe there are other side effects I don't know about?  Let me know if so.
>>
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