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sshd running by default on element14 supplied card ?

Former Member

Can anyone confirm whether there is an sshd running at boot by default on the element14 supplied sd card pls ? I don't really want to buy a k/board and squeeky since I plan to network my rpi so would like to ssh/telnet in from the off.

Tks Alex

  • And the other reason is that if Ethernet works for you headless then you don't want to add anything else to USB since it might well cause your network to stop working since that runs over USB as well.  It's all hanging by a thread.

  • Not sure about the element14 SD card, but the latest Raspbian image has DHCP and sshd enabled by default, you will obviously need to find out what IP address was assigned by whatever device acts as a server on your network.

     

    -J

  • in reply to jamodio

    Yep tks - have decided to burn my own image to a card so will use that (and hence have sshd runnign)

    Cheers

    (p.s. as for the ip addr - first time round I'll just check the dhcp logs and then install dyndns - or maybe I'll just install dyndns from the off in the image)

  • in reply to Former Member

    You may want to initially run it with a display attached, because there is an initial screen to configure various things like language, locale, timezone, etc. and whether you want to enable sshd, unless you are familiar enough with Debian to put everything in place to just work.  And if you know how to do that, you could configure it with a static IP.  I am posting from my pi which I just received today.

     

    [code]

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ps aux | grep ssh

    root      1899  0.0  0.2   7092  1056 ?        Ss   20:15   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd

    pi        2471  0.0  0.0   3512   360 ?        Ss   20:34   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager

    pi        2638  0.0  0.1   3540   860 pts/0    S+   20:56   0:00 grep --color=auto ssh

    [/code]

  • in reply to Former Member

    An alternative to have a display, keyboard and mouse connected to the board is to use the serial console from the P1 connector.

     

    The UART interface comes out straight from the BCM2835 pins so you will need a RS232 level converter or a UART-USB adapter like the one sold by SparkFun (I've use these a lot and never had any issues with them) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/718

     

    I also tried the USB to TTL Serial Cable from Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/products/954) but it has not been very reliable for me, once in a while loses characters and the drivers on the windows side are not too good.

     

    Once you have access to the serial console with a terminal emulation program (such as TeraTerm or similar) configured at 115200 8N1 you will be able to see all the boot messages and log in and complete the configuration of the Rpi without any display/keyboard/mouse connected.

     

    And if you want to use the graphic desktop remotely you can install tightvnc on the Rpi and a VNC Viewer on our PC.

     

    My .02

    -J