Raspberry Pi: wifi+ssh+user headless configuration the "easy" way

Assuming you already have a reasonable amount of Linux knowledge and just want to have your RPI on the network with ssh ready to go asap:

standard disclaimer: these commands can result in data loss, proceed at your own risk.

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xz -d --stdout ./2022-09-06-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/usb
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/usb2

echo “$(whoami):$(echo ‘mypassword’ | openssl passwd -6 -stdin)” > /mnt/usb/userconf.txt
touch /mnt/usb/ssh
echo “mywifipassword” | wpa_passphrase myssid >> /mnt/usb2/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

umount /mnt/usb
umount /mnt/usb2
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I found reading though ad filled tech-blogs to piece this together each time I needed a raspberry pi headless setup to be annoying. Hopefully this will be useful for somebody.

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Or you could do it like normies and use the built-in features in RPi Imager to enable ssh and wifi…

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