#Confusion about archinstall's arch wiki warning about storing passwords in plain text

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obtuse cloak
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The live environment is held entirely on the RAM so this isn't the concern

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If it really mattered to you, set a password that you don't generally use and change it right after first boot

But I'm fairly sure the security issue only exists for the time you're using archinstall from when you enter your password to when it executes that part of the script. For my system, I'd bet that's under 30 seconds

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And then it would also exist if you kept the live environment open, let someone ssh in, etc, maybe but I doubt you're keeping it active for more than 15 minutes

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@trim thistle