Raspberry Pi Set up a new user
Depending on the Linux distribution, the user setup looks a bit different. In a freshly installed Linux, there is usually only “root”, if not a user-defined user was added during the installation.
If you have an image of Raspbian written on an SD card, then there is a default user named “pi” and the password “raspberry”. This has the advantage that you can get started right away and not have to set up any users.
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