Timeline for How to change default username on Raspberry Pi when connected via ssh?
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 14:48 | history | edited | honi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | goldilocks♦ | This may make it more awkward to use the system for people who have gotten use to this high degree of ease-through-circumventing-security, but OTOH, by dumbing people down too much you may be begging for dumb things to happen. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | goldilocks♦ |
Raspbian is peculiar in the degree of privileges given to the pi user by default -- it might as well be root, and yet is commonly used to run applications that should be considered very insecure (e.g., web browsers), so while I agree that only allowing keys and not passwords with SSH is a good idea, I also think it is a good idea, if you are concerned about security, to eliminate (or modify the privileges of) the pi user, since this is certainly something that constitutes a "well publicized weakness" that could be exploited.
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 8:28 | comment | added | peter b | thanks for the explanation! I will go for ssh key authentication. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 8:25 | vote | accept | peter b | ||
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| Aug 1, 2016 at 4:59 | history | answered | honi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |