Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued

On 28/01/2025 08:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/01/2025 06:14, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:

My main memory is the rPi imager also allowed headless Wifi set up,
which had not be possible/easy previously. I can't remember if it worked?

>
WiFi is/was configured in wpa_supplicant.txt, and that worked fine
without the RPi imager program.
>

Was...
 All  change with bookworm IIRC
 

UK law: Product Security and Telecommunications Security Act 2022 which is amongst things, designed to stop devices, like routers for example, from having default passwords that can easily be guessed. That's because many people leave the passwords at the default settings and then such devices are more easily roped into DDOS attacks.