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From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Can't get into headless pi, password not 'raspberry'
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:42:38 +0000
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Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:
> On 1/25/25 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?
> > 
> 
> Use the Raspberry Pi Imager, it is good. That allows you to do some boot 
> provisioning, this is a more up to date version of the ssh file in boot. 
> I think there is a .yml provisioning file, but I get confused between 
> different OSes.
> 
> The other way is to use a .ssh/authorized_keys file, with an appropriate 
> key set up on the machine you are coming from.

Yes, .ssh/authorized_keys would seem to be the way to go, thanks.

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Chris Green
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