Configuring Raspbian

Now we are connected, let's do a few things to prepare the Raspberry Pi for use: change the user password and change the hostname to make the Pi more secure.

We can perform many of these tasks with the raspi-config tool, a menu system to perform common configuration tasks on Raspbian. We start it with another tool, sudo, which runs raspi-config as root, a master user. Refer to the following command:

sudo raspi-config

The raspi-config interface will appear, as follows:

The raspi-config

Renaming your Pi

Every fresh Raspberry Pi image is called raspberrypi. This means that if there is more than one of those in a room, your computer will not be able to find yours. It's time to think of a name...