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Obviously, the default passwords of tux (user) and root (admin) are not secure at all, and need to be changed, following a Slitaz install. However, after changing the default passwords, I'm unable to login to Slitaz5.
It would help greatly if someone could tell me (I ask this for the third time) whether there are keyboard characters which are forbidden - are only alphanumeric characters allowed ? I have gone through the forum threads, but couldn't find any posts dealing with this issue - how to access such basic information here is not obvious.
I have already posted the question on passwords twice before, but it has remained unanswered. Surely someone can answer this simple question (?) or is everyone using the default passwords ...
Hi mikey777, for security success skip tazpanel, and on terminal as root then:
passwd (name of user)
insert your password and are ended of question 
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To me this seems to be a problem of the GUIs. I reported it as bug 221:
http://bugs.slitaz.org/?id=221
and had no reaction as well.
As gibor stated, from the command line (nearly) every character can be entered in a password, but passwords containing special characters can possibly not be entered in a GUI such as tazpanel!
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@gibor
What you said (above) allowed me to change the user password I need for log-in, after booting-up the netbook. I used the following four special characters: * @ & !
These characters were accepted by Slitaz, as I was able to login with the new password - many thanks for this - sincerely appreciated :-)
Now that I know that special characters are accepted by Slitaz5-rolling, as long as I use the terminal method & not the tazpanel to change the password, I need to go and look-up how to change the default log-in username ('tux'), and default root username & password ('root') to make them more secure. I'll post the result here to help others, as soon as I've found out how to do it (I'll then mark the post as 'solved') ...
@HGT
Many thanks for your input - this confirms gibor's advice - much appreciated
change name of user on terminal I really don't know how, but delete e create user with name you want is it possible
little command reminder
adduser username <= adds a user
deluser username <= deletes a user
addgroup groupname <= adds a group
delgroup groupname <= deletes a group
adduser -G groupname username <= adds a user to a group
addgroup username groupname <=adds a user to a group
delgroup username groupname <= deletes a user from a group
adduser -G tux -h /home/tux tux
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