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User and password
The username is "pi" and the password is "raspberry", you have misspelled the word "raspberry" by missing the p.
If you still have issues, I would try re-downloading, re-formatting, and doing it ...
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Default username/password for CentOS 7 on Raspberry Pi
Defaults are
Username: root
Password: centos
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I have just returned to my Raspberry Pi after a year and can't remember my login
As it turns out, you don't have to flash your RPi to recover from this. In fact, you don't need another Linux system at all, all you need is another SD card flashed with your RPi OS flavor of choice ...
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Can't delete pi user on Raspbian
I think I tracked it down for you...
You removed the lightdm autologin for user pi ... but, if you are using noobs, there is another autologin here:
/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
line 28:
...
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What is the purpose of group "staff"?
According to the Debian Wiki:
staff: Allows users to add local modifications to the system (/usr/local) without needing root privileges (note that executables in /usr/local/bin are in the PATH ...
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Can't delete pi user on Raspbian
I did what rubberstamp did, but it still did noy work.
So I went to preferences, raspberry pi configuration and removed the check from auto login. Then it worked for me.
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Enable VNC and SSH for user other than `pi`?
SSH
SSH is achieved just by creating a new user (useradd) and making a small edit to sshd_config. First lets create the user:
useradd UserName
passwd UserName
Once the user is created, if you want ...
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Boot into the GUI after changing default user
As of Raspberry Stretch you can simple login to youruser and call
sudo -s
raspi-config
and in the Boot Options Menu "B" under "B1/B2" you'll find
.. automatically logged in as 'youruser' user
will ...
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What is the purpose of group "staff"?
This isn't peculiar to Raspbian or even GNU/Linux; evidently it's used on OSX too, although perhaps not the same way. Both operating systems are a form of unix -- I found that OSX question by ...
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New user, Pi keeps asking for password
You can manually add the user to sudoers, but this is only part of the story.
If you want the user to have the same privileges you should set the groups.
The pi user is normally a member of pi adm ...
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Allow non-root user to set system time
I suggest you allow the command to be issued with sudo. This would remind the user that they are using a privileged command.
sudo visudo
then add the following line to the end of the file
...
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How to configure RealVNC server to allow connection to other users than pi
Login as the pi user, right click the vnc system tray icon and select options, go to the users and permissions page and add your new user there.
By default it should allow users that are members of ...
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User and password
just faced the same problem. everything written before is right, BUT : my installation had an english keyboard layout, which means, to input my "raspberry" pw i had to press "raspberrz"
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Why do I have 3 different pi users?
When you type sudo passwd you are running the passwd command as the root user, and you are therefore changing the password of the root user, not of the user pi. Only the third time, when you changed ...
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restricted shell (rsh) on raspbian
You may want to have a read over the invocation section here, and note that sh on Raspbian is actually a link to bash, which will conform to sh type behavior when invoked that way.
However, because ...
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New user, Pi keeps asking for password
On Raspbian you have two common options:
Option 1: Add the already created user (i.e. with the name "john") to the group "sudo":
pi@raspberry:~ $ sudo usermod -aG sudo john
Option 2: Edit the ...
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Wrong password creating on first boot (cloud-init) (Ubuntu 20.04 server, RPI 4)
Yes this one got me as well its because of the following parameter and its default settings;-
lock_passwd: Optional. Disable password login. Default: true
So the fix is to set lock_passwd: false in ...
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Default username/password for CentOS 7 on Raspberry Pi
and had to spam passwords in until I got it right
the user name and password is mentioned in the official website
root password : centos
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/...
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Black screen after deleting 'pi' user
As I can't tell what else happened to the system I'd recommend you to first reflash the sdcard. Secondly create new user and add it to sudoer group and then lock the pi user.
passwd pi -l
Then ...
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Change username using a script
If I wanted to do this (and I still think it is futile - pi is just a text label for user 1000, and the number can be used in many contexts), I wouldn't do it on a working system.
AFAIK the string pi ...
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Chown files of mounted raspbian image to a user that isn't on host system
The directory does not need to be owned by user pi.
Indeed the filesystem has no inherent knowledge of users.
pi is user 1000, and your system probably has a user 1000.
You should be able to use ...
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New user cannot login
First, delete the user created.
Next, I type $ groups pi to check the group's user pi belong. Then I create a new user with the command
$ useradd -m -G [groups from user pi except for pi and sudo] ...
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GPIO.add_event_detect requires root
I'm not sure what is going wrong. My Python knowledge is sketchy.
I'd dump the lambda and try the following (which works for me).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
def ...
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Change UID and GID of default user pi
This is what I do.
Warning: Use at your own risk as making a mistake may require a reinstall.
log in as the pi user and add two more users with sudo adduser name1 and sudo adduser name2. The name2 ...
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SFTP Match multiple Users
After a lot of search I believe I have found a solution.
The issue was probably related to SFTP chroot jail. These might be the keywords for this problem.
I changed the chroot folder permission.
$ ...
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Allow non-root user to set system time
It looks like pam_cap.so can be installed with the libpam-cap package, which seems obvious in retrospect... After that everything worked as expected.
The reason I am marking this as the correct ...
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adduser command does not create home directories
Your answer is here. You may have gotten the commands (adduser & useradd) confused, or you may not have missed a package in your Debian installation, or ... maybe you simply failed to read man ...
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adduser command does not create home directories
The adduser command only do the essential to create an account to be able to login on the command line. There is a skeleton (or template) of an user account in /etc/skel. When creating a new account ...
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nobody user running demon
I have the same process.
nobody 264 0.0 0.4 4304 2052 ? Ss 09:25
0:01 /usr/sbin/thd --triggers
/etc/triggerhappy/triggers.d/ --socket /run/thd.socket
--user nobody --deviceglob /dev/...
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