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Commit e5279b0e authored by Matt Johnston's avatar Matt Johnston
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@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ If you have an OpenSSH-style private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you need to do:
dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db
dbclient -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db <hostname>
 
Currently encrypted keys aren't supported, neither is agent forwarding. At some
stage both hopefully will be.
Dropbear does not support encrypted hostkeys though can connect to ssh-agent.
 
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@@ -52,13 +51,18 @@ dropbearkey's '-y' option.
 
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To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off:
To run the server, you need to server keys, this is one-off:
./dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key
./dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key
./dropbearkey -t ecdsa -f dropbear_dss_host_key
 
or alternatively convert OpenSSH keys to Dropbear:
./dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key dropbear_dss_host_key
 
You can also get Dropbear to create keys when the first connection is made -
this is preferable to generating keys when the system boots. Make sure
/etc/dropbear/ exists and then pass '-R' to the dropbear server.
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If the server is run as non-root, you most likely won't be able to allocate a
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