Re: Help with my question, please.
At Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:20:06 -0600 tdial@acm.org wrote:
>
> The real necessary information that would enable those on this list are not yet available, after dozens of posts.
> (I consider this top post justified by circumstances, and apologize to any who disagree.)
>
> On 9/21/25 09:31, COMCAST wrote:
> > On 9/21/25 09:52, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Try https://raspberryexpert.com/raspberry-pi-default-login-password/
>
> Describe the piece of hardware that you are trying to access.
> Tell us in some detail what you did to set it up.
> Tell us why you think it has SSH server enabled.
> Tell us why you think its IP address is 192.168.0.213.
> Tell us why you think it has a user named "debian".
>
> The traditional default user login for Raspberry Pi units before Raspbian Bullseye was
> User: pi
> Password: raspberry
> On later versions, as I understand it, a user account and it password must be created during setup.
> Raspberry Pi devices do not have SSH server enabled by default.
This is trivial to override by adding a file named "ssh" to the /boot file.
It is appearent that sshd IS running (if it wasn't the password prompt would
not appear.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, it was helpful but was a nice pointer. it really didn't help me. I still get...
> >
> > root@debian:/usr/lib/modules# ssh debian@192.168.0.213
> > Debian GNU/Linux 12
> > debian@192.168.0.213's password:
> > Permission denied, please try again.
> > debian@192.168.0.213's password:
> > Permission denied, please try again.
> > debian@192.168.0.213's password:
>
> This response indicates, I think, that:
> A machine with an ssh server is running at 192.168.0.213, and
> It may be running Debian 12, and
> either:
> It does not have an account with username debian, or
> It has an account with username debian and you have not supplied the correct password.
>
> Openssh (and probably also other ssh servers like dropbear) will reply the same in both cases.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Dial
> >
> >
> > I honestly don't know what the answer is...
>
>
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