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From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:11:00 +0000
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On 26/01/2025 22:57, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 1/26/25 16:52, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 26/01/2025 20:37, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
> 
> There was a lot of back and forth about that on the Pi Forum last year. 
> I and several other folks suggested that it would be a good idea to be 
> able set your keyboard type in the Imager.  And since I have one of 
> those foreign (the default is en_UK) keyboards it can be tricky until 
> you figure out what is going on.
> 
Yes, not ideal, but you can always set a password that works with a UK 
keyboard, and then change it when you first connect

-- 
Chris