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I can offer some suggestions: use version 1.85 of the Imager program.
It has solved some of the password entry issues of the older version.
Also it allows you to use a different user name than pi, but I like pi
so I use it.  Use the latest Raspberry Pi OS, either 64 or 32 bit as
appropriate.

knute...



On 1/26/25 04:42, 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.
>
>      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!
>


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Knute Johnson

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