The recipes in this chapter are for the basic administration of the Raspberry Pi. This chapter starts with a recipe that shows how you can use the sudo command to execute other commands that require superuser privileges. The next three recipes use the raspi-config command-line tool to complete the following three initial configuration tasks:
Expanding the filesystem to use all the space on an SD card
Changing the memory allocation for better performance
Enabling remote access to the Raspberry Pi
The following two recipes show how the Raspberry Pi can be accessed remotely:
Using the
SSHcommand-line client from Linux or Mac OS X computersUsing the PuTTY client from Windows computers
The final three recipes in this chapter, which are as follows, are for user administration:
How to change the password of the default user whose username is
piHow to create a new user login
How to add a user to the privileged
sudouser group
Once you've completed this chapter, you will be able to administer...