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  • Re: Old distribution password

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Ivan on Thu Jul 17 18:20:01 2025
    On 7/17/25 11:36 AM, Ivan wrote:
    Hallo,

    I wonder if you could help me out.

    Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi  and installed Debian distribution -
    I have a backup copies with name  2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img   ...
    so you see it is very old one.

    I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and now I am trying to
    start it but of course I am stuck with logon.  Would you know default username / password combination   from that distribution?

    Many thanks .

    Best regards!    Ivan

    If you installed the (customized) Debian distribution from Raspberry Pi,
    which it appears you did, then I would suggest you check their web site/support.

    Ken

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Ivan on Thu Jul 17 18:20:01 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:36:16 +0200
    Ivan <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hallo,

    I wonder if you could help me out.

    Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi and installed Debian
    distribution - I have a backup copies with name 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img ... so you see it is very old one.

    I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and now I am trying to
    start it but of course I am stuck with logon. Would you know default username / password combination from that distribution?

    Many thanks .

    Best regards! Ivan

    Until fairly recently, the Pi default user name was pi, with the
    password raspberry. One of the first things users are encouraged to do, however, is to change the password, and ideally add other users and
    disable or delete the pi account. Do you remember if you did that?

    --
    Joe

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Ivan on Thu Jul 17 18:20:02 2025
    Ivan wrote:
    Hallo,

    I wonder if you could help me out.

    Some time ago I got my Raspberry pi and installed Debian distribution - I have a backup copies with name 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img ... so you see it is very old one.

    I was not using my Raspberrypi for some time and now I am trying to start
    it but of course I am stuck with logon. Would you know default username / password combination from that distribution?

    Raspbian isn't Debian.

    What you might be able to do:

    reboot
    - catch the grub prompt to interrupt the boot
    - change the kernel command line to have
    init=/bin/sh
    - continue booting

    You will get a root shell with the root filesystem mounted
    read-only. Change it to read-write:

    mount -o remount,rw /

    Then set a new passwd for root:

    passwd

    then sync and reboot normally.

    -dsr-

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Ivan on Thu Jul 17 18:40:02 2025
    Ivan wrote:
    Thank you for quick replay, Dan.

    One detail what is grub prompt?


    You seem to have missed copying the list on this. Common
    mistake.

    Grub is one of the possible boot methods that operates between
    the computer starting itself and the Linux kernel loading.

    If Raspbian doesn't use that, it might use some other boot
    loader, which may or may not provide live access to the kernel
    command line.

    In that case, you might need to remove the root disk and mount
    it on another computer, edit the config, put it back, and
    reboot.

    -dsr-

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