What password to use to log in after the first boot?

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The first time I boot up my Raspberry Pi I get a login screen.

What username and password should I use? That is, what is the default password for Raspberry Pi?

Distribution dependent. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 09 '12 at 09:44 — Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen, Aug 09 '12 at 09:44
Of course ... but still well worth answering. :) – Maria Zverina Aug 09 '12 at 10:08 — Maria Zverina, Aug 09 '12 at 10:08

score 84 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 28 '12 at 00:40

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This depends on the distribution you have downloaded. The default passwords for common distributions are as follows:

Distribution   | Username   | Password
---------------|------------|-------------
Debian Squeeze | pi         | raspberry
Arch           | root       | root
QtonPi         | root       | rootme
Raspbian       | pi         | raspberry
OpenElec       | root       | openelec

Straight after logging in you should change your password by using the passwd command at the shell prompt

$ passwd

edited Jul 28 '12 at 00:40

answered Jun 24 '12 at 22:41

Maria Zverina

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+1 Recommending that users should change their password. Especially since these passwords are available on the Raps Pi site, in plain text – Jamie Taylor Jun 26 '12 at 14:38
NOOBS also includes Pidora, RISC OS, and RaspBMC. Those could be included for completeness. – Peter Mortensen May 18 '14 at 12:33
Keep in mind that the keyboard layout used by you Raspberry Pi could be a different one than the one you are used to! US Layout: here – winklerrr Apr 03 '19 at 20:34
LibreElec | root | libreelec – Bilko Jun 12 '20 at 02:31
Note that Raspbian after April 2022 has no default user any more! – Étienne Mar 18 '23 at 16:25

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 18:36

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Distribution   | Username   | Password
---------------|------------|-------------
Debian Squeeze | pi         | raspberry
Arch           | root       | root
QtonPi         | root       | rootme
Raspbian       | pi         | raspberry
OpenElec       | root       | openelec
Pidora         | root       | raspberrypi
RISC OS        | n/a        | n/a
raspbmc        | pi         | raspberry

answered Jun 02 '14 at 18:36

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LibreElec | root | libreelec – Bilko Jun 12 '20 at 02:31

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 23 '17 at 21:40

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Beware if you are using a German keyboard: In this case you have to use pi / raspberrz

answered Mar 23 '17 at 21:40

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Why would this be the case? – Darth Vader Mar 23 '17 at 22:42
German keyboards have the Z and Y key swapped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_keyboard_layout – Ray Hulha Mar 24 '17 at 00:28
Yes but surely if you press the Y key, the keyboard is going to send a piece of data to the Pi saying that the Y key has been pressed? Under what circumstances would that not occur? – Darth Vader Mar 24 '17 at 10:55
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Keyboard drivers sometimes use keycodes relative to the location of the button and not the letter printed on top of it. – Ray Hulha Mar 25 '17 at 22:52
I used to have the problem with DOS based games a lot back in the old days. – Ray Hulha Mar 25 '17 at 22:53
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@DarthVader: The keyboard tells the pi that key "row 2, column 7" was pressed. The Pi translates this to "Y". With a German keyboard, the Y key is at row 4, column 3, and the Pi doesn't know this is supposed to be an Y. (I'm oversimplifying a bit, google for "scancode" - you need to send the Pi the scancode that corresponds to Y, which is the Z on a German keyboard) – Guntram Blohm Jun 22 '18 at 13:30

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 12 '21 at 15:51

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With dietpi it would be root/dietpi or dietpi/dietpi.

answered Nov 12 '21 at 15:51

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9years ago there was no DietPi. If I remember right, the first release was around 2013. – MatsK Nov 14 '21 at 22:27

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '22 at 10:10

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For Razberry z-wave it's: razberry

answered Oct 01 '22 at 10:10

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Étienne · Answer 6 · 2023-03-18T19:36:33.447

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With Raspberry pi OS (previously called Raspbian) release of April 2022, the default user and password was removed, making it impossible to login via uart directly after installation for instance. It is necessary to login via the graphical UI and to create a user account there first. See https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-bullseye-update-april-2022/

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answered Mar 18 '23 at 16:24

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Will · Answer 7 · 2017-05-21T07:56:55.613

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With Raspbian, the username is pi, and the password is raspberry. You can change the password by running the command passwd, using the raspi-config tool, or the graphical Raspberry Pi Configuration tool. On Arch, the username is root and the password is root. You can also change the password with the command passwd.

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answered Jan 07 '17 at 14:56

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited May 21 '17 at 08:20

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With Raspbian, the username is pi and the password is raspberry. Also note that SSH is disabled by default.

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answered May 21 '17 at 07:40

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 20:22

To add to the answers about 'Beware if you are using a German keyboard: In this case you have to use pi / raspberrz', they are omitting to say that this is an issue after first boot because the user cannot yet have told the pi that a German keyboard is attached. The pi defaults to expecting a UK English keyboard. Once that's changed, all the letters and symbols will be correct.

The same issue also applies for other language keyboards - eg symbols in the wrong places - until the correct language driver is installed (eg, using sudo raspi-config). But it matters most for the password because the default contains a 'y' and needs the 7th key along on 2nd row (which is marked Y on the default English and many other keyboards but Z on a German keyboard).

Users with French 'AZERTY' keyboards will have to substitute for the 'A' in raspberry (press the 2nd key on 3rd row, whatever it is marked ...)

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