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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:06:50 -0500
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Subject: Re: Pi5 Installation v 3.21 from SD - need initial password for root (SSH)
To: fossdd <fossdd@pwned.life>
Cc: gerald@pechoc.eu, ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 7:01=E2=80=AFPM fossdd <fossdd@pwned.life> wrote:
>
> On Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM CET, Gerald Pechoc wrote:
> >
> > I tried to install Alpine Linux 3.21 from SD-Card on Pi5. The card was
> > prepared with Pi-Imager.
> > All seems to work fine, Pi is booting and because of DHCP-fix address I
> > could start SSH root@[ip-addr] but the hint I found very frequently in
> > internet search results =E2=80=93 user root, no password =E2=80=93 is n=
o longer valid
> > for version 3.21.
> >
> > Does anybody know which is the correct password for the installation?
> > I have guessed some passwords, but I was not very lucky with that.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's still having no password. Are you sure you're
> connecting to the correct machine?

Yeah, that's what the Alpine docs say, too:
<https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi>.

> Can you maybe connect with a display to the rpi and troubleshoot
> further?

I would run `setup-alpine` before troubleshooting. I suspect the empty
password may be the problem. Once a new user is setup with a password
or public key, then SSH should work fine.

Jeff