INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3
REPLYADDR cl@isbd.net
REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP
MSGID:  006655e1
PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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.

    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!

--
Chris Green
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