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Add note about password length #42

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3. The default shell for Void Linux is "dash" and is the "/bin/sh" of the system.
* It may be very helpful to run `chsh` after login to change the default login shell, since dash is very limited.
* In shell scripts, make sure to use "#!/bin/bash" instead of "#!/bin/sh", otherwise you may experience odd script failures due to using "dash" instead of the traditional "Bourne shell".
4. The user password must be 8 characters in lenght due the key length requirement of ZFS encryption. Do not attempt to change your password to a shorter password later on as this will break your user account!
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4. The user password must be 8 characters in lenght due the key length requirement of ZFS encryption. Do not attempt to change your password to a shorter password later on as this will break your user account!
4. The user password must be a minimum of 8 characters due to the ZFS encryption key length requirement of ZFS encryption. Creating or modifying a user password to be less than 8 characters will break the user account!

## Looking ahead
The next step is finalizing all of the desktop/graphics initialization routines and pushing the trident-core and trident-desktop packages up to Void Linux (as well as any additional desktop-related packages that we might need). We are running a little bit behind our original timetable, but are still aiming to release the desktop-focused "RELEASE" version of PT based on Void Linux by the end of the month.