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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wonder about raspberry pi - it's the image you download that has the known user and password.
It might mean that you can't sell one with a pre-imaged, pre-installed sdcard unless you customised the image.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's very easy to remove that and ask for a password on first boot. It could literally be one line in a shell script. They could put it in a text menu if they want to get fancy.

More professional (non-hobby) RP based devices probably aren't using stock vanilla Raspbian anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

stock vanilla Raspbian anyway.

Raspberry pi OS != Raspbian

Those are two completely separate and different OSes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Force of habit. I've been working with Pis for a while, long before the name change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hmm, ok. My impression was that Raspian still exists as a separate thing. I didn't know there was a name change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, is Rasbian not a thing anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It is. There are two. Raspberry Pi Os, and Raspbian. The former used to be Raspbian. I still get them confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You can already use a tool in the rpi imager to set the default login for your image.