Jan 18, 2014 - After restarting ApplePi-Baker, the password will be asked again. The default install to the SD card is really hard on the mac. I'll do some more testing with the app on my laptop, but I cannot rewrite any code at the. How to Install Raspbian on Raspberry Pi (MacOS). Installing Operating. The Apple menu, choose 'About.
User management in Raspbian is done on the command line. The default user is
pi
, and the password is raspberry
. You can add users and change each user's password.Change your password
Once you're logged in as the
pi
user, it is highly advisable to use the passwd
command to change the default password to improve your Pi's security.Enter
passwd
on the command line and press Enter
. You'll be prompted to enter your current password to authenticate, and then asked for a new password. Press Enter
on completion and you'll be asked to confirm it. Note that no characters will be displayed while entering your password. Once you've correctly confirmed your password, you'll be shown a success message (passwd: password updated successfully
), and the new password will apply immediately.If your user has
sudo
permissions, you can change another user's password with passwd
followed by the user's username. For example, sudo passwd bob
will allow you to set the user bob
's password, and then some additional optional values for the user such as their name. Just press Enter
to skip each of these options.Remove a user's password
You can remove the password for the user
bob
with sudo passwd bob -d
.Create a new user
You can create additional users on your Raspbian installation with the
adduser
command.Enter
sudo adduser bob
and you'll be prompted for a password for the new user bob
. Leave this blank if you don't want a password.Home folder
When you create a new user, they will have a home folder in
/home/
. The pi
user's home folder is at /home/pi/
.skel
Upon creating a new user, the contents of
/etc/skel/
will be copied to the new user's home folder. You can add or modify dot-files such as the .bashrc
in /etc/skel/
to your requirements, and this version will be applied to new users.Sudoers
The default
pi
user on Raspbian is a member of the sudo
group. This gives the ability to run commands as root when preceded by sudo
, and to switch to the root user with sudo su
.To add a new user to the
sudo
group, use the adduser
command:Note that the user
bob
will be prompted to enter their password when they run sudo
. This differs from the behaviour of the pi
user, since pi
is not prompted for their password. If you wish to remove the password prompt from the new user, create a custom sudoers file and place it in the /etc/sudoers.d
directory:Note that it is standard practice on Linux to have the user prompted for their password when they run
sudo
, since it makes the system slightly more secure.Delete a user
You can delete a user on your system with the command
userdel
. Apply the -r
flag to remove their home folder too: