MB 4.8.0: SSH daemon not automatically started

Ratna

Has anybody made a MB 4.8.0 with the dd command? I made one. Access point and Moodle work beautifully. I have the feeling that Moodle 4.5 LTS is as responsive as the 4.1 LTS, which I am still using.

The problem I have is no SSH log in. A port scan shows nothing on port 22. Does the image not start SSH daemon by default? I know RPi imager asks for those things in its GUI. What is the equivalent in dd? Is the old trick, touch /boot/ssh before inserting the solution? Note that I work purely headless - hopefully not literally ;-).

Edit: After a touch /boot/ssh I see a service on port 22 and it even sends me a log in prompt. But the usual password Moodlebox4$ for user moodlebox returns permission denied.

Edit 2: Changed the shell password through the web interface! Matter solved.

ralfkrause

Hi Ratna,
are you sure that you downloaded the correct image version? If you have this image https://github.com/moodlebox/moodlebox/releases/download/v4.8.0/moodlebox-4.8.0.img.xz … the name does not contain rpi-imager … the MoodleBox is fully configured for headless use and ssh.

I just test this image twice. I copy the image to a microSD card. In my first test I start the Raspberry Pi 4B and connect my tablet to the MoodleBox WiFi. My ssh program is Termius and there is no problem to connect and to do things in the Raspberry Pi OS. My second test with a new microSD copy is to connect the Raspberry Pi to a HDMI display and a keyboard to connect directly. No problem with the standard username and password.

If you use the other image type https://github.com/moodlebox/moodlebox/releases/download/v4.8.0/moodlebox-4.8.0-rpi-imager.img.xz made for downloading and copying with the Raspberry Pi Imager there you will find no preinstalled users moodlebox or pi. The new Raspberry Pi security wants that every user sets his own userdata and password. You can set this userdata in the Raspberry Pi Imager by clicking on the gear icon. And you can set the userdata when your MoodleBox is connected to a display and a keyboard. Perhaps your setting the standard userdata and password is the third way to setup a user moodlebox.

Best regards,
Ralf

Ratna

Hi Ralf

I am pretty sure. As you can see I wrote the post in three parts, editing each time, as it happened.

It is now running - web and shell. I will post a screenshot of its homepage when I'm at home.

ralfkrause

Ratna
I wrote this because in my note tests I got no error.
In my tests I got ssh with the user moodlebox and the password out of the box.