Headless install

Andy Burns · 2022-10-17T18:26:39+00:00

I found all the bits (Pi3B, PoE splitter, USB caddy, SATA spinner, SD card) to cobble together my low power always-on "server" to allow me to turn off the power-hungry server when it's not specifically required.Used the latest RPi Imager, chose PiOS Lite, told it to enable SSH, set a username and password, wrote the image, insert SD card, no keyboard/HDMI connected, plug into ethernet, powers and boots.Find the DHCP addr from my router, using PuTTY I can SSH to the machine, give it the username and password I set earlier, but it just says "Access Denied", wipe and repeat in case I fumbled setting the password, same problem.What's the point of setting SSH credentials that it won't let you use?

Oct 17, 2022 Last reply: 3 years ago 21 Replies

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Andy Burns 3 years ago

I didn't because the Pi Imager (advanced dialogue) has an option to do that when the SD is written, and that part does work, there was a live SSH daemon, just that the credentials were rejected.

When I re-wrote the card without using the advanced option, yes I had to enable SSH that way.

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scott 3 years ago

I was able to get the imager working on Gentoo Linux by writing an ebuild for it that grabs a source tarball from GitHub and compiles it:

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Dependencies (with Qt being one of the bigger ones) are named within. The build process is straightforward enough that the CMake eclass figures everything out by itself. Presumably you could build (and optionally package) it for whatever distro you want.

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