Subj : Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued
To   : Chris Green
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Sun Jan 26 2025 12:37:48

On 26/01/2025 10:42, Chris Green wrote:
> This is getting ridiculous!
>
> Once upon a time one just copied an image to a card, enabled ssh and
> hey presto, you could log in as user pi with password raspberry.
>
> No chance now.
>
> I would point out that I'm not, in general, a complete numpty.  I've
> been using Pis (and other similar things) for many many years.
>
>
> So, having found out why the above simple approach doesn't work I have
> tried:-
>
>      Use rpi-imager, wasted first attempt because it wasn't obvious where
>      one entered user/password.  Second attempt seemed to boot the Pi
>      OK but it never appeared on my LAN so not much help there. (At
>      least my first dd copied image appeared on the LAN)
>
>      Manually editing userconf.txt with my /etc/shadow encrypted
>      password from my Linux box got to a login prompt but the password
>      is somehow wrong.
>
Ah. There may be gotchas in there like EOL charaters and spaces that
have to be 'just right'

I generally generate the encryption using the tools suggested.

e.g. echo 'mypassword' | openssl passwd -6 -stdin

echo 'raspberry' | openssl passwd -6 -stdin

$6$5H2l9s5V5YBulBGU$xchi.2AQLn5P5IK/khNPC3uggf9dc5DjY9KKxZK7IdDPNV1Zzggaxg0DTstT8bpSMvRzUlc9vJ/mrPQPbfBX/

Note you never get the same string twice...

Here is a userconf.txt with user pi password raspberry...

pi:$6$c70VpvPsVNCG0YR5$l5vWWLsLko9Kj65gcQ8qvMkuOoRkEagI90qi3F/Y7rm8eNYZHW8CY6BOIKwMH7a3YYzZYL90zf304cAHLFaZE0


>      Finally I managed to get a login working by creating a
>      ~/.ssh/authorized keys file with the public key from my Linux
>      system in it.  Phew!
>
Ultimately that is a smoother way to access the Pi anyway


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