Run terminal and passwd root, enter in new password for root, confirm it, get back a message to say password has been changed. Exit terminal. Reboot.
...but new password does not take effect.
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Password for root is still the default of woofwoof. If I try to connect to the Puppy box via Windows 10, the new password does not work, but the OLD one does. IE: I can access the puppy machine fine with root/woofwoof as you would expect with a clean install, but the new root password is being ignored.
Anyone got any ideas why that should be?
Is there something else I am supposed to do to make the new password take effect?
EDIT: I think this was my mistake. I needed to use smbpasswd root to change the SAMBA password for the networking. I have now done this and rebooted, and now Windows totally refuses to talk to the puppy box at all.
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