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I will be needing to access my Raspberry Pi while I am away from home, and SSH would be good for this purpose. I am using it with password authentication, and I don't want to mess around with SSH keys.

However, I don't want people to access the server using the default password, so I need to change the Raspberry Pi user password from "raspberry" to something else.

Peter Mortensen
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You can change the password of the current user by running passwd.

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Alex Chamberlain
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You can also use the raspi-config script. So run:

sudo raspi-config

A menu will pop up that allows a bunch of things, but if you look at the 4th thing down, select change_pass

change_pass        Change password for 'pi' user
kevin
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sudo passwd pi for no prompt for current password, passwd for standard change. You can also use the graphical configuration tool or sudo raspi-config to change it, if you are using the default pi user.

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