How do I change the password in easy 4.5.5 ? (solved)

[superchook]

I recently installed easy 4.5.5 to an 8 GB USB 3 stick and everything seems to be working well.
Unfortunately the first time I booted from it when it asked for a password my finger bounced and I added an extra character in the middle.
I did not notice this until I had hit enter and continued with the installation.
I now would like to change the the password. I have tried entering "passwd" in a terminal and this asks for a new password and a confirmation as you would expect but on re booting I find the password has not changed.
Is there an easy way to change the password?
(The post following points to what would be required. I'll just live with the current password)

[Caramel]

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 077#p76077

I noticed that when EasyOS is installed with a password at boottime,
there appears to be no way to change the password.
It seems to be permanent unless you totally re-install EasyOS.
I suggest a boot option to change the password at boottime and then
reboot your machine.
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Encryption can only be set on empty folders, that's why you can't change the password.
At very first bootup, /mnt/wkg/containers, data, files, releases, .session are created and the password applied to them.
After that, those folders become populated and the password cannot be changed.

You would have to boot up a different distro, then delete all those folders, as well as the 'sfs' folder, leaving just 'vmlinuz', 'initrd' and 'easy.sfs', so it is just like the first-bootup situation, then you can enter a new password.