Modern Linux would not let you log on as root, you need to have a "normal"
user which is added to the sudoers so if root access needed you just sudo
the command...

Did not that Arch Linux image provide a normal user credentials?

Tamas


On 27 September 2012 18:03, V G <x.solarwind.x@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just bought a Raspberry Pi at the local electronics store from which I
> reserved one a few weeks ago. Also bought an 8GB class 10 SD card.
>
> Wrote the Arch Linux ARM image to the SD card, only to realize that
> although sshd is running by default, root logins are not permitted, so I
> couldn't even login to the device. Seriously... what's the point of
> enabling sshd by default if you can't even use it to log in? I wasn't abo=
ut
> to unplug my monitor and keyboard and stuff, so I proceeded to modify the
> SD card image and burn it again. I had to mount the original image and ed=
it
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config to add "RSAAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication
> yes PermitRootLogin yes", and then rewrite the image to the SD card.
>
> If anyone wants to modify the SD card image before burning it to the SD
> card (for whatever reason), here's how. On your host computer, do the
> following:
>
> 1. Note the start sector offset for the main partition of the SD card
> image. Mine was 194560 (sector size of 512B).
> $ fdisk -l archlinux-hf-2012-09-18.img
>
> 2. Mount the disk image somewhere so you can edit it.
> $ sudo mount -o loop,offset=3D$((512*your noted offset))
> archlinux-hf-2012-09-18.img mnt
>
> 3. Make your changes, unmount, and burn the modified image to the SD card=
..
>
> Booted up again. Good, finally logged in via SSH - only to realize that
> Arch Linux ARM desecrated the Arch Linux philosophy of "keeping it simple=
"
> by replacing /etc/rc.conf with systemd. I loved the BSD-style init - that
> was like, half the point of Arch Linux. These guys replaced it with some
> silly init program that makes it just as complicated as SysV init. Why? W=
hy
> would you guys do that? This is precisely why I *didn't* want to install
> Debian.
>
> Anyway, Arch Linux boots up in less than 10 seconds and works well here.
> Everything looks good so far.
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