Learning Raspberry Pi

User management

Once you have Raspbian installed, it is advisable to set up a user account. The Raspberry Pi Foundation's version of Raspbian already has a user pi, with the password raspberry. A system running with the default password is not secure as the password is widely known. To avoid this problem, the password needs to be changed. The default install does not have a root password set and the user is expected to use sudo to run commands as root. As a result, many beginners never learn the difference between a root and a user account. This leads to misuse of sudo and other issues later on. A root password is set in order to allow administrative tasks to be carried out in a standard root shell and an extra user account is added to standardize ...