Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued

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