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The first time I boot up my Raspberry Pi I get a login screen.

What username and password should I use? That is, what is the default password for Raspberry Pi?

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This depends on the distribution you have downloaded. The default passwords for common distributions are as follows:

Distribution   | Username   | Password
---------------|------------|-------------
Debian Squeeze | pi         | raspberry
Arch           | root       | root
QtonPi         | root       | rootme
Raspbian       | pi         | raspberry
OpenElec       | root       | openelec

Straight after logging in you should change your password by using the passwd command at the shell prompt

$ passwd
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    +1 Recommending that users should change their password. Especially since these passwords are available on the Raps Pi site, in plain text Jun 26, 2012 at 14:38
  • NOOBS also includes Pidora, RISC OS, and RaspBMC. Those could be included for completeness. May 18, 2014 at 12:33
  • Keep in mind that the keyboard layout used by you Raspberry Pi could be a different one than the one you are used to! US Layout: here
    – winklerrr
    Apr 3, 2019 at 20:34
  • LibreElec | root | libreelec
    – Bilko
    Jun 12, 2020 at 2:31
  • Note that Raspbian after April 2022 has no default user any more!
    – Étienne
    Mar 18 at 16:25
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Distribution   | Username   | Password
---------------|------------|-------------
Debian Squeeze | pi         | raspberry
Arch           | root       | root
QtonPi         | root       | rootme
Raspbian       | pi         | raspberry
OpenElec       | root       | openelec
Pidora         | root       | raspberrypi
RISC OS        | n/a        | n/a
raspbmc        | pi         | raspberry
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  • LibreElec | root | libreelec
    – Bilko
    Jun 12, 2020 at 2:31
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Beware if you are using a German keyboard: In this case you have to use pi / raspberrz

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    Why would this be the case?
    – Darth Vader
    Mar 23, 2017 at 22:42
  • German keyboards have the Z and Y key swapped: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_keyboard_layout
    – Ray Hulha
    Mar 24, 2017 at 0:28
  • Yes but surely if you press the Y key, the keyboard is going to send a piece of data to the Pi saying that the Y key has been pressed? Under what circumstances would that not occur?
    – Darth Vader
    Mar 24, 2017 at 10:55
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    Keyboard drivers sometimes use keycodes relative to the location of the button and not the letter printed on top of it.
    – Ray Hulha
    Mar 25, 2017 at 22:52
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    @DarthVader: The keyboard tells the pi that key "row 2, column 7" was pressed. The Pi translates this to "Y". With a German keyboard, the Y key is at row 4, column 3, and the Pi doesn't know this is supposed to be an Y. (I'm oversimplifying a bit, google for "scancode" - you need to send the Pi the scancode that corresponds to Y, which is the Z on a German keyboard) Jun 22, 2018 at 13:30
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With Raspbian, the username is pi, and the password is raspberry. You can change the password by running the command passwd, using the raspi-config tool, or the graphical Raspberry Pi Configuration tool. On Arch, the username is root and the password is root. You can also change the password with the command passwd.

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With Raspbian, the username is pi and the password is raspberry. Also note that SSH is disabled by default.

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To add to the answers about 'Beware if you are using a German keyboard: In this case you have to use pi / raspberrz', they are omitting to say that this is an issue after first boot because the user cannot yet have told the pi that a German keyboard is attached. The pi defaults to expecting a UK English keyboard. Once that's changed, all the letters and symbols will be correct.

The same issue also applies for other language keyboards - eg symbols in the wrong places - until the correct language driver is installed (eg, using sudo raspi-config). But it matters most for the password because the default contains a 'y' and needs the 7th key along on 2nd row (which is marked Y on the default English and many other keyboards but Z on a German keyboard).

Users with French 'AZERTY' keyboards will have to substitute for the 'A' in raspberry (press the 2nd key on 3rd row, whatever it is marked ...)

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With dietpi it would be root/dietpi or dietpi/dietpi.

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  • 9years ago there was no DietPi. If I remember right, the first release was around 2013.
    – MatsK
    Nov 14, 2021 at 22:27
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For Razberry z-wave it's: razberry

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With Raspberry pi OS (previously called Raspbian) release of April 2022, the default user and password was removed, making it impossible to login via uart directly after installation for instance. It is necessary to login via the graphical UI and to create a user account there first. See https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-bullseye-update-april-2022/

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