Fresh isntall of li tile on rpi5 will not accept any password

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Hey Champions, i have a pi5 that i wish to use as a nas for some connected hard drives. i made a terrible mistake within the OMV interface and lost basically everything useful. i followed the instructions to remove OMV entirely and reinstall but then wasnt able to recreate the user or even log in at all. then i weirdly lost eth connection from the pi. I flashed the os again, even did a full format of the sd card and reinstalled pi lite but now i cant even ssh back into the pi to set it all up again. no matter what i try i keep getting “sorry, try again.” error.

I have the correct ip, no go.

i used the hostname i created in setup (with .local) no go.

at my wits end now. can anyone help me?

im using a mac and terminal.

Cheers

Pete

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Hey @Peter299741,

Sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with the SSH again. We will go through the OSI Model to try and get this solved:

We will start with the Physical and Data Layers (Layer 1 and 2):

You mentioned that you lost ethernet connection with the Pi.

Has the Pi regained it? If you go into the router settings, can you see the Pi5’s MAC address listed as a currently connected device?

Network Layer:

Is the Pi using the correct IP Address set out for it in the Router? If you ping its IP are you getting a response?

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legend thank you. so i have managed to get it all back together. i had modem issues and that took a reset, i have the pi ip static and have finally managed to ssh in but only as root. so now i believe i need to set up a new user and delete the root user correct?

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Ooh, I would not go ahead and delete the root user. I’m not sure it’s possible and if you managed it you’d probably brick your system in creative ways I have never seen before.

Just stop using the root user and you should be golden. <3

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yeah i didn’t think that would be smart but its what one thread suggested after setting up another sudo user.

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I mean… I might go home and do that on a Pi Zero just to see how it goes now.

It’s always fun seeing how far you can push a system.

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if youre confident enough absolutely push boundaries. i have a few spare sd’s and could have a semi sandboxed toy. i really need to get this one set up for nas first tho :joy:

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