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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ those things. Instead it supports:
 - setting system hostname
 - install user's configured SSH keys to the alpine user's authorized_keys file
 - run any script-like user data (must start with #!)
-- scramble root and alpine password
+- disable root and alpine password
 - resize root partition to available disk space
 
 These steps only run once. After the initial bootstrap the bootstrapper script