[[!img password-prompt.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt="Authentication required: amnesia password (also called *administration password* or *root password*)"]] <!-- Note for translators: the alt tag is useful for SEO. -->

[[!img password-prompt.png class="screenshot" alt="Authentication required: amnesia password (also called *administration password* or *root password*)"]] <!-- Note for translators: the alt tag is useful for SEO. -->

For betteradded security, no administration password is set up by default.

For added security, no administration password is set up by default.

<p>For added security, it is impossible to set up an administration password after
starting Tails. Otherwise, a compromised application could bypass some of the
security built into Tails.</p>

<p>For added security, it is impossible to set up an administration password after
starting Tails. Otherwise, a compromised application could bypass some of the
security built into Tails.</p>

How to open a root terminalconsole

How to open a root console