Troubleshooting • Raspberry Imager and ssh login on headless Raspberry

So, first things first.

Setting up ssh through the Imager does not work. Why the key first step of onboarding doesn't work is beyond me, and I lost a whole afternoon on this. But anyways...

My environment:
- Raspbery Pi 4 64 bit / SDCCard / Wifi Antenna
- Mac OS
- Raspberry Pi imager v1.9.0
- Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit (2024-11-19)

Imager
- Set your Wifi username / password
- Do not check the Enable SSH box in the imager and do not set a root username / password.
- Write your image

Mount your image on your Mac
- Add an empty file named ssh in the mounted root directory on your SDCard

Mac Terminal
- Run - Enter your password and confirm it
- Copy the resulting password hash, let's say it's xyz, to an empty text called userconf.txt as follows- Add a carriage/hard return after that line and save the file in the mounted root directory on your SDCard
- So, now pi will be your username. You can use something else if you prefer

Insert the SDCard into your Pi, plug it in and wait a minute or two for it to start up.

- Ensure you're on the same Wifi network as the Pi
- In Terminal type - If you get some kind of error message complaining that there is a conflicting ssh identity, open ~\.ssh and delete the line with raspberry.local in it and save.
- Connect again and type yes at the prompt to store in the ssh cache

- You should be prompted for your password now
- Type your password at the prompt and you should be in

Let me know if this works

Cheers,
Marc

Statistics: Posted by mschipperheyn — Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:06 pm

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