root and user password during installation

[ppKrauss]

Check how to say to mkusb to prompt the root and user passwords... Use or boot with "default password" is security breach.

[ppKrauss]

At this moment the resulted HalfTails pendrive is default... need to open a terminal and

sudo passwd

that will be change the username user (see shell or whoami before). See also:

• Customizing the live user, http://stackoverflow.com/a/31431277/287948
• use of sudo -i, http://askubuntu.com/a/248093/439867
• General for Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Root and http://askubuntu.com/a/347825/439867

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Illustrating

As here. The pendrive states in a secure process installation:

1. blank pendrive
2. secure system installed
3. secure passwords enabled
4. running secure pendrive

The pendrive states in unsafe process:

Here we add an unsafe state,

5. running (unsafe!) pendrive

Which, also, may compromise the following state (3).