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> I tried devmode this afternoon and it worked very well.  I discussed a few
> nits with jlebon on #atomic, but thought I would mention them here.
> 
> - The generated root password can include similar characters l (letter L), 1
> (number 1), O (upper-case letter O), 0 (number zero), etc.  I got bit by
> this when I tried to login to the cockpit interface.  Perhaps we could
> eventually use something like a series of dictionary words separated by a
> certain character?  (I found a discussion on StackOverflow [1] about this
> potential problem.)

I'm thinking of just rerunning pwmake until it satisfies our criteria,
rather than either crafting passwords ourselves, or messing with the string
it outputs and reducing the entropy.

> - I think we should include a string under the cockpit URL that says
> something like "Login to the cockpit console with the username "root" and
> the generated password above".  If an intended audience is people who have
> never used Linux, we should be fairly explicit with instructions right out
> of the box.

Agreed, good idea.
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