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Only advertise a single server ecdsa key when -R (generate as required) is
specified. Fixes -R now that default ecdsa key size has changed.
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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| date | Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:25:33 +0800 |
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1 This is Dropbear, a smallish SSH server and client. |
| 701 | 2 https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html |
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| 1548 | 11 Please contact me if you have any questions/bugs found/features/ideas/comments etc :) |
| 12 There is also a mailing list http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dropbear | |
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| 75 | 18 In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow: |
| 72 | 19 ============================================================================ |
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21 Server public key auth: |
| 72 | 22 |
| 23 You can use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the same way as with OpenSSH, just put | |
| 24 the key entries in that file. They should be of the form: | |
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| 26 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAwVa6M6cGVmUcLl2cFzkxEoJd06Ub4bVDsYrWvXhvUV+ZAM9uGuewZBDoAqNKJxoIn0Hyd0Nk/yU99UVv6NWV/5YSHtnf35LKds56j7cuzoQpFIdjNwdxAN0PCET/MG8qyskG/2IE2DPNIaJ3Wy+Ws4IZEgdJgPlTYUBWWtCWOGc= someone@hostname | |
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| 28 You must make sure that ~/.ssh, and the key file, are only writable by the | |
| 290 | 29 user. Beware of editors that split the key into multiple lines. |
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31 Dropbear supports some options for authorized_keys entries, see the manpage. |
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| 75 | 33 ============================================================================ |
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37 Dropbear can do public key auth as a client, but you will have to convert |
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38 OpenSSH style keys to Dropbear format, or use dropbearkey to create them. |
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40 If you have an OpenSSH-style private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you need to do: |
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42 dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db |
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43 dbclient -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db <hostname> |
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| 874 | 45 Dropbear does not support encrypted hostkeys though can connect to ssh-agent. |
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| 75 | 49 If you want to get the public-key portion of a Dropbear private key, look at |
| 50 dropbearkey's '-y' option. | |
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| 52 ============================================================================ | |
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| 874 | 54 To run the server, you need to server keys, this is one-off: |
| 72 | 55 ./dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key |
| 56 ./dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key | |
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57 ./dropbearkey -t ecdsa -f dropbear_ecdsa_host_key |
| 72 | 58 |
| 59 or alternatively convert OpenSSH keys to Dropbear: | |
| 60 ./dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key dropbear_dss_host_key | |
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| 874 | 62 You can also get Dropbear to create keys when the first connection is made - |
| 63 this is preferable to generating keys when the system boots. Make sure | |
| 64 /etc/dropbear/ exists and then pass '-R' to the dropbear server. | |
| 65 | |
| 75 | 66 ============================================================================ |
| 72 | 67 |
| 68 If the server is run as non-root, you most likely won't be able to allocate a | |
| 69 pty, and you cannot login as any user other than that running the daemon | |
| 70 (obviously). Shadow passwords will also be unusable as non-root. | |
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| 75 | 72 ============================================================================ |
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| 72 | 74 The Dropbear distribution includes a standalone version of OpenSSH's scp |
| 75 program. You can compile it with "make scp", you may want to change the path | |
| 161 | 76 of the ssh binary, specified by _PATH_SSH_PROGRAM in options.h . By default |
| 75 | 77 the progress meter isn't compiled in to save space, you can enable it by |
| 78 adding 'SCPPROGRESS=1' to the make commandline. |