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From: Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Can't get into headless pi, password not 'raspberry'
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:02 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <jtch6l-udb2.ln1@q957.zbmc.eu>,
   Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
 
> > Question if I may? How do you get to the /etc/shadow file if you
> > can't log in to the pi?
> > 
> By editing it in the file system that appears when you plug the USB
> stick into a PC, easy! :-)

Erm, not here!

My PC can read and write the FAT32 bootFS which is how I can add both 
SSH and userconf files. But the other partition, ext4 rootfs is
invisible on my PC.

> > Probably a couple of years ago now I created my own userconf file
> > which along with an empty SSH file I drop into a newly burnt SD
> > card. This works just fine for me but I would love to know how
> > get to anything on the other partition without logging in. I am
> > unaware of any way to see the main partition when the SD card is
> > plugged into a PC.
> > 
> Both partitions appear when I plug it into my Linux boxes, e.g. when
> this particular USB is plugged in I see:-

>     /media/chris/Transcend/rootfs
>     /media/chris/Transcend/bootfs

Oh, So you mean a Linux PC, that I can believe but I don't know
anyone who has such a beast, I've not even seen one. Apple-mac or
Windows without exception in my acquaintances and all would think a
'PC' meant windows.

Before anyone makes the obvious claim, in my eyes a pi doesn't
qualify as a PC.

Bob.