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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:49:27 +0000
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On 26/01/2025 22:52, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 26/01/2025 20:37, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 1/26/25 12:20, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there **really** such a big security issue with default login names
>>> and passwords on Raspberry Pis?  Surely almost all of them are going
>>> to be on home networks behind NAT routers and also surely no one is
>>> going to (without thinking about it a bit!) put confidential data on
>>> one.  Anyone installing any system which is going to be directly out
>>> on the internet should be very aware of the risks and will do what's
>>> required.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know but there appear to be a few people who can't get their 
>> password into their Pi successfully.
>>
> 
> Most who cannot are people trying to use a foreign keyboard, which you 
> cannot set up in the imager
> 
Why would you be using a keyboard at all on a headless Pi?

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