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   The Natural Philosopher to Bob Latham   
   Re: Can't get into headless pi, password   
   26 Jan 25 12:23:22   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   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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