Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued

Chris Green wrote:

Is there **really** such a big security issue with default login names
and passwords on Raspberry Pis?  Surely almost all of them are going
to be on home networks behind NAT routers and also surely no one is
going to (without thinking about it a bit!) put confidential data on
one.

Plenty of Pis (especially the compute modules) end-up in industrial kit, maybe not much data on them, but you don't want them being used to laterally attack other systems.
<https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1007/schedule/1/paragraph/1/made>
"Passwords must be—
(a)unique per product; or
(b)defined by the user of the product."