Raspberry Pi Ubuntu First Login

Written by Brenton Ford on the 04th Sep 2021

Exported on 04-Sep-2021 21:02:08

The Raspberry Pi Ubuntu OS installation forces a password change on the first login.

This is a simple blueprint that has a single interactive step to change the password for the Ubuntu default account.

After running this blueprint you should look into the Ubuntu OS Hardening Attune blueprint.

Parameters

Name	Type	Script Reference	Comment
Linux Node	Linux / Unix Server	linuxNode
Ubuntu Default User	Linux OS Credential	ubuntuDefaultUser	The default Ubuntu user account.
Ubuntu Default User Password	Linux OS Credential	ubuntuDefaultUserPassword	The default Ubuntu user account and default password.

Run a simple status command to trigger the Ubuntu first time login password reset.

This step has the following parameters

Name	Script Reference	Default Value
Ubuntu Default User	{ubuntuDefaultUser.password}
Ubuntu Default User Password	{ubuntuDefaultUserPassword.password}

The connection details have changed from the last step.

Connect via SSH

ssh user@hostname

This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session

date

This step will require you to answer the following prompts.

Prompt	Answer
Current password:	{ubuntuDefaultUserPassword.password}
New password:	{ubuntuDefaultUser.password}
Retype new password:	{ubuntuDefaultUser.password}