Subj : Re: Can't get into headless pi, password not 'raspberry'
To   : Bob Latham
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Sun Jan 26 2025 12:23:22

On 26/01/2025 10:21, Bob Latham wrote:
>> 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.

Ah. Yes. From Windows only the VFAT boot partition is (normally)
visible. But thats where you plonk userconf.txt so it should all work OK.

Generating the password may not be so easy - not sure what tools windows
has for that.

I wonder if a blank password would work?

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