PINE64 - A Raspberry Pi Killer?

A POWERFUL 64-BIT EXPANDABLE SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER – STARTING AT JUST $15. OVER 36,000 BACKERS AND $1.7M+ RAISED ON KICKSTARTER!

Just received my Pine64+ 2GB a few days after confirmation. Unlike some of the redditors on www.reddit.com/r/pine64/ I am happy with it and no problems so far...

This is how I got started:

RaspberryPi Server (Part 2): Security

Getting your head into RaspberryPi security.

TL;DR Having previously setup the RPi as a headless device logging in over ssh here the default password was changed. However, if the RPi is to function as a server then adding a new superuser, deleting the default pi user, enabling passwordless login using ssh keys, disabling password login, restricting incoming connections to port 22 only, banning IPs that fail repeatedly and setting up a restart watchdog timer will go some way to hardening the diminutive server.

UPDATE: "macOS keeps asking my ssh passphrase since I updated to Sierra" *sigh* do this:

 ssh-add -K

This stores passphrases in your keychain.

RaspberryPi Server (Part 1): Headless log in OS X

Getting all carried away with headless RaspberryPi login

TL;DR The Raspbian Raspberry Pi optimized Debian Linux image runs the ssh server by default at boot up. Hook up the Raspberry Pi to the router with a network cable, boot into a Raspbian image, find the RPi on the network and ssh into it from a terminal emulator using default user name (pi) and default password (raspberry).