RE: On the Second Day, My Pi Gave Me a Raspberry.

johnbeetem — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:55:14 GMT

Michael wrote: I need to take a moment to mention that I am from the United States. [Howdy!] Also, one of the characters in my "strong" password is the "at symbol". It seems, either through my exuberance (most likely) or some quirky re-setting of defaults, that my keyboard layout was set for UK, not US. While they may both be QWERTY, the "Shift+2" on the Pi console keyboard typed the "double apostrophe", yet the VNC/Windows keyboard typed the "at symbol". Who knew?

Raspberry Pi provides lots of useful educational lessons, like this one:

Always be suspicious of keyboard malfunction (or malconfiguration) when it doesn't accept your password. A good trick is to enter your password as your user name. That way it's echoed and you can see if there are any surprises.