Category: Raspberry Pi

This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

The official Raspberry Pi site has details on how to secure the Raspberry Pi. The page covers the following:

1. Change your default password
2. Change your username
3. Make sudo require a password
4. Ensure you have the latest security fixes
5. Improve SSH security
6. Use key-based authentication
7. Install a firewall
8. Installing fail2ban

I’d recommend taking a read through the page and enacting at least some of the above.

This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

The first time you start the Raspberry Pi, it will automatically load the System Configuration Tool; this is where you can change a number of settings like the password, language or network settings.

I’m going to run throuhg the settings I changed, starting with option 1; change the user password:

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This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

When you start the Raspberry Pi for the first time, the new Raspbian Lite OS will start and progress to the logon prompt.

The default logon credentials for the Raspbian OSes are:

• Username = pi
• Password = raspberry

After logging in I would very strongly recommend that the password be reset which you can do in the System Configuration Tool. I’ll cover this tool in the next post.

This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

With the Raspberry Pi built it is time to install the operating system.

The SD Card which arrives in the starter kit from Canakit is already loaded with NOOBS, which is an easy operating system installer which contains Raspbian and LibreELEC; it also provides a selection of alternative operating systems which are then downloaded from the internet and installed.

As I will be using the Raspberry Pi as a Pi-Hole, I will be using Raspbian Lite.

Start the Raspberry Pi and wait for NOOBS to start. Scroll down and mark the box next to Raspbian Lite and then click the Install button on the toolbar:

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This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

The build of the Raspberry PI kit is easily the easiest computer build I’ve done.

The starter kit from Canakit is contained within a small box (the separate SD Card in the photo was bought in addition to the one which arrived in the box):

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This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

I have no prior experience dealing with the Raspberry PI, so I went the easy route and bought a starter kit from Amazon:

This starter kit includes everything necessary for a working Raspberry PI and includes the most recent version of the Raspberry Pi itself. It includes the following:

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (B Plus) with 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU (BCM2837B0)
• 1 GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
• On-board WiFi and Bluetooth Connectivity
• 32 GB Samsung EVO+ Micro SD Card (Class 10) pre-loaded with NOOBS
• USB MicroSD Card Reader
• CanaKit 2.5A Micro USB Power Supply (UK) with Noise Filter
• Premium Raspberry Pi 3 Case
• High Quality HDMI Cable with CEC support (6-foot cable)
• Set of 2 Aluminum Heat Sinks
• GPIO Quick Reference Card
• CanaKit Full Colour Quick-Start Guide

in the next post, I’ll be assembling the Raspberry Pi.

This series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi, which I am going to take a look at the building of my new Raspberry Pi.

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I’ve looked at the Raspberry Pi a number of times over the years, but never bought one as I both lacked a convincing use case and have virtually zero experience with non-Windows operating systems. However, more recently, I have reached my limit with how intrusive online adverts have become and have finally bought a Raspberry Pi and installed Pi-Hole.

I have a number of posts about my adventures with a Raspberry PI in which I am going to be looking at how to assemble and install the Raspberry PI as well as my experiences with Pi-Hole and probably some other software.

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