Setting up Voyage – Users and Passwords

Change the default password

First and foremost the default password for the root user needs to be changed!

To do this you need to log in using the default user/password.

voyage login:root
Password:voyage

You should now be greeted by the following:

voyage:~#

To change the password first we need to remount the system as read/write (it defaults to read only to protect the card)

voyage:~#remountrw

To change the root password, simply type: 

voyage:~#passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated sucessfully

This is the most important user on your computer as it has control over EVERYTHING! Lets make sure we set a good password! To test that it works we can logout by typing:

logout

Create a new user

We don’t really want to be using the root user for everything so we can set up a new user (fred) using the following command:

useradd fred

Make sure you are logged in before you try this! We can also set Fred’s password by using the passwd command:

passwd fred