Password for using ssh in terminal on mac?

worcesterthecat

alright i'm really struggling to get the retro pie up and running... in terminal I type "ssh retropie" then it asks for a password. it comes up as (my first and last name)@retropie i suppose because that is the name of my mac. I've tried the password i use for my mac, raspberry, my routers password, i tried changing the password in the raspherry pi software config tool and still get denied... So what the heck is it?

Hyruleslink

@worcesterthecat raspberry

mitu

@worcesterthecat You forgot to input the username. The username on the remote system is 'pi', not your (my first and last name) as you say.

Either use

ssh pi@retropie

or

ssh -lpi retropie

when you're trying to connect.

worcesterthecat

@hyruleslink said in Password for using ssh in terminal on mac?:

@worcesterthecat raspberry

like i said i tried that and no dice.

@mitu said in Password for using ssh in terminal on mac?:

@worcesterthecat You forgot to input the username. The username on the remote system is 'pi', not your (my first and last name) as you say.

Either use
ssh pi@retropie
or
ssh -lpi retropie
when you're trying to connect.

it doesnt give me an option it just puts that in automatically

Hyruleslink

@worcesterthecat whoops, sorry. I must have over looked that when reading the op.

mitu

@worcesterthecat If you're using the ssh pi@retropie command, your username is set to pi, so there is no option to select, just input the password.

worcesterthecat

@mitu said in Password for using ssh in terminal on mac?:

@worcesterthecat If you're using the ssh pi@retropie command, your username is set to pi, so there is no option to select, just input the password.

oooooh! that worked thanks!

weird that no tutorial i read seemed to state that... or maybe i just missed it

demesauce

What are you using to SSH in the Pi? You should be using Terminal, comes pre-installed on all macs. Open terminal and type: ssh pi@192.168.5.25 (but use whatever your Pi's IP address is) password is: raspberry