By Ionut Arghire on April 11, 2022
In an attempt to improve security, the latest Raspberry Pi OS release no longer creates a default “pi” account, requiring users to set up custom accounts instead.
The “pi” user, which has been present in all Raspberry Pi installations since the beginning, does make it easier to conduct brute-force attacks (it is usually paired with the password “raspberry”), even if some don’t necessarily see it as a security weakness.
With the latest change – which is also prompted by new legislation in some countries forbidding the use of default accounts – users will be required to create an account when booting a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image.
