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Posted on 2023-02-04
Since I broke [my PiHole] previous installation, I had to reintall it from scratch on a the RaspberryPi 0W I'm using for it. This is more like a short note for myself, since the process has changed a bit since [my last post] on it. For more details, read the official [headless installation documentation].
First, download the latest image and install it on an SD Card (decompress the image with unxz):
sudo dd if=/path/to/image.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync status=progress sync
To enable ssh, create a file named ssh in the boot partition, eg:
touch /media/bacardi55/boot/ssh
To create a user automatically, it now requires a userconf.txt in the boot partition. The file needs to have a single line in the format username:encryptedPassword.
To encrypt the password you want to use:
openssl passwd -6
And then type your password. Example with test as a password:
$6$WvOe.eTqsUHauZG3$Rk0WrFDvGCn7iuVagP85rxslyhatV25OGGwVL3gQOajaDudlqJEw1/KbHaRaXDMJumIokSTQfjidr2sC5FLyF.
So the userconf.txt file would look like this with the user "test" and password "test":
test:$6$WvOe.eTqsUHauZG3$Rk0WrFDvGCn7iuVagP85rxslyhatV25OGGwVL3gQOajaDudlqJEw1/KbHaRaXDMJumIokSTQfjidr2sC5FLyF.
If wireless network needs to be configured before first boot, edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file as usual. In my case, the Pi0W uses a wired connection and the IP is fixed by the router.
Then I just add to follow again the [PiHole documentation].