Housekeeping Steps to Take After Installing Raspbian On A Raspberry Pi

Peter McDonald
3 min readDec 12, 2018

It is very easy to get carried away and jump in head first after installing Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi however there are steps that should be considered beforehand.

Changing the root password

By default, the username for the Raspberry Pi is “pi” with a rather predictable “raspberry” being the password. Of course, as this is well known it is a bit of a security risk therefore it is best practice to change the password. To do so simply log into SSH and enter the…

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