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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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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.
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.
Raspberry pi OS != Raspbian
Those are two completely separate and different OSes.
Force of habit. I've been working with Pis for a while, long before the name change.
Hmm, ok. My impression was that Raspian still exists as a separate thing. I didn't know there was a name change.
Wait, is Rasbian not a thing anymore?
It is. There are two. Raspberry Pi Os, and Raspbian. The former used to be Raspbian. I still get them confused.
You can already use a tool in the rpi imager to set the default login for your image.