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From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
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Subject: Re: Can't get into headless pi, password not 'raspberry'
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:41:23 +0000
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Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/01/2025 22:34, Chris Green wrote:
> > I am trying to set up a new, headless Pi 4B.  I have copied the 'lite'
> > image to a USB drive and created the empty 'ssh' file in the boot
> > partition.
> > 
> > It boots OK and the ssh deamon is running but the default username
> > 'pi' and password 'raspberry' don't work. How on earth do I get into
> > it to start it up?
> > 
> > I can edit files on the USB drive OK so I can add and modify entries
> > in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. So all I actually need to do is set it
> > up so the user 'pi' has no password but I'm not doing too well at
> > doing that at the moment.
> > 
> > Any ideas, or other ways to get into it?
> > 
> There is no longer a default user in current images. When you sue the 
> Raspberry Pi Imager, you must use the option to set a user and password, 
> and if needed to enable ssh
> 
Ah, that would explain it, thanks.  I just used dd to create the
image, I'll have to add a user and so on.  OK, no problem.

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Chris Green
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