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Patch from Nicolai Ehemann to try binding before going to the background, so that if it exits early (because something's already listening etc) then it will return an exitcode of 1.
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date Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:54:18 +0000
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1 .TH dropbearkey 8
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2 .SH NAME
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3 dropbearkey \- create private keys for the use with dropbear(8)
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4 .SH SYNOPSIS
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5 .B dropbearkey
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6 \-t
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7 .I type
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8 \-f
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9 .I file
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10 [\-s
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11 .IR bits ]
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12 .SH DESCRIPTION
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13 .B dropbearkey
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14 generates a type
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15 .I rsa
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16 or
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17 .I dss
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18 SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the
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19 .BR dropbear (8)
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20 SSH 2 server.
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21 .SH OPTIONS
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22 .TP
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23 .B \-t \fItype
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24 Type of key to generate.
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25 Must be one of
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26 .I rsa
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27 or
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28 .IR dss .
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29 .TP
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30 .B \-f \fIfile
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31 Write the secret key to the file
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32 .IR file .
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33 .TP
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34 .B \-s \fIbits
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35 Set the key size to
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36 .I bits
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37 bits, should be multiple of 8 (optional).
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38 .SH EXAMPLE
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39 # dropbearkey -t rsa -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
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40 .SH AUTHOR
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41 Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
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42 .br
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43 Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page.
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44 .SH SEE ALSO
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45 dropbear(8), dbclient(1)
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46 .P
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47 http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html