Default password for root is "woofwoof"
February 15, 2026 —
BarryK
Forum member don570, at first bootup of a new installation, declined to give a password to encrypt folders in the working-partition, and at the fallback when it asks for a password for "root" and "zeus" users, he also only pressed ENTER. Reported here:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=165165#p165165
If ENTER only is pressed, it should have defaulted to "woofwoof"; however, I have made that explicit. When the script asks for the root password, there is now this extra message:
Note: if you press ENTER only, or there is a timeout, the default "woofwoof" password will apply.
This change is in /inc/00functions in the
initrd.
Tags: easy