[arm-allstar] Newbie with an off-the -wall problem

[Willem Schreuder]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, "John Cannon via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Since then I have been totally stonewalled in trying to restore the link, as 
> now no one claims to know the original settings, nor the passwords to the 
> RPi, nor what to do next, and yet all are complaining that I broke it.

When you have physical access to the device, you can always get back in.

Follow this tutorial
   https://linux.tips/tutorials/how-to-boot-raspberry-pi-into-single-user-mode
to boot in "single user mode".  This allows root access to the device 
without a password.  You can then user the passwd command to set the 
root password to a known value.

Once you are back in the device as root, you can change whatever you need 
to.

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