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   Message 21,244 of 21,939   
   Chris Green to Pancho   
   Re: Can't get into headless pi, password   
   26 Jan 25 09:42:38   
   
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   Pancho  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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