Enable SSH Before Booting Your Raspberry Pi

Enable SSH on your Raspberry Pi computer before you boot the pi for the first time. This is a handy tip if you are running your Raspberry Pi headless as I do. You can also enable VNC without connecting a monitor to your pi after you have SSH enabled. This trick works with Raspbian Stretch and Buster.

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[SignalsEverywhere]

This is an incredibly useful feature, I had to look around for awhile to find a way to do this in the past.

I want all of mine headless as well and it's a royal pain having to connect a monitor when I have no intention of ever using it with one down the road.

[wkom]

Great info Jason! Getting my first Pi 4 today. Looking forward to trying a few of your projects on it.
After you showed me everything they would do at Field Day it was only a matter of time before I bought one. lol

Keep the videos coming!

[thuff]

Wow I need to start doing this on all my Raspberry Pi’s. Thank you for this video!

[grayismysuperpower]

For Mac OS Monterey this doesn't work because there's no "New File" option in the finder menu. What you can do instead is open terrminal and run these two commands:
cd /Volumes/boot
touch ssh

[maniakm]

Is creating SSH file in BOOT directory actual for Raspberry Pi OS 5.4 ?

[stromgewehr]

To go one step further on this, you can also create a text file called wpa_supplicant.conf with the correct structure that contains the SSID and password for your wifi network.



country=us
update_config=1


network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid="MyNetworkSSID"
psk="Pa55w0rd1234"
}


Upon boot the OS will detect that file and move it to /etc/wpa_supplicant and connect to your wifi network. From that point on, it is exactly the same as described in this video but completely wireless.

[gooup]

i flash the raspberry image using etcher and my mac can't read the card. How do you access the files?

[jimweisgram]

While you are in raspi-config would it be a good time to expand your pi filesystem to use the entire sd card? Or is that changed in more recent versions of Raspian?

[donaldsmith]

Where can find putty? I need to start over, I got ahead of things and got the updates and there was no place to change the size of the font.

[lbciradiostuff]

But how does this connect to my network if I dont setup wifi and password first?

[brycepeck]

When I right click there is no option to create a new file, on a macbook

[NickKemp]

I flashed the SD card and when I tried to view the contents with W10 File Explorer no luck viewing the card. W10 wants to format the card. The flash works fine (Currently in update mode on the rpi3B+). I see other posts not being able to view the SD card via W10 File Explorer but have not chased down a fix.

[buyfromcharlie]

hi jason I have a Mac, what do you use for your vnc viewer? Thanks.

[ncvvet]

I'm in windows with the text file. How do I boot Pi while in windows?