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Just use /dev/urandom since that's what everyone ends up using anyway.
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| 72 | 1 This is Dropbear, a smallish SSH 2 server and client. |
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5 MULTI has instructions on making a multi-purpose binary (ie a single binary |
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10 See TODO for a few of the things I know need looking at, and please contact |
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11 me if you have any questions/bugs found/features/ideas/comments etc :) |
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| 75 | 17 In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow: |
| 72 | 18 ============================================================================ |
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20 Server public key auth: |
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| 22 You can use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the same way as with OpenSSH, just put | |
| 23 the key entries in that file. They should be of the form: | |
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| 25 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAwVa6M6cGVmUcLl2cFzkxEoJd06Ub4bVDsYrWvXhvUV+ZAM9uGuewZBDoAqNKJxoIn0Hyd0Nk/yU99UVv6NWV/5YSHtnf35LKds56j7cuzoQpFIdjNwdxAN0PCET/MG8qyskG/2IE2DPNIaJ3Wy+Ws4IZEgdJgPlTYUBWWtCWOGc= someone@hostname | |
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| 27 You must make sure that ~/.ssh, and the key file, are only writable by the | |
| 290 | 28 user. Beware of editors that split the key into multiple lines. |
| 72 | 29 |
| 30 NOTE: Dropbear ignores authorized_keys options such as those described in the | |
| 31 OpenSSH sshd manpage, and will not allow a login for these keys. | |
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| 75 | 33 ============================================================================ |
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35 Client public key auth: |
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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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45 Currently encrypted keys aren't supported, neither is agent forwarding. At some |
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| 75 | 50 If you want to get the public-key portion of a Dropbear private key, look at |
| 51 dropbearkey's '-y' option. | |
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| 53 ============================================================================ | |
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| 72 | 55 To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off: |
| 56 ./dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key | |
| 57 ./dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key | |
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| 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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| 75 | 62 ============================================================================ |
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| 64 If the server is run as non-root, you most likely won't be able to allocate a | |
| 65 pty, and you cannot login as any user other than that running the daemon | |
| 66 (obviously). Shadow passwords will also be unusable as non-root. | |
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| 75 | 68 ============================================================================ |
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| 72 | 70 The Dropbear distribution includes a standalone version of OpenSSH's scp |
| 71 program. You can compile it with "make scp", you may want to change the path | |
| 161 | 72 of the ssh binary, specified by _PATH_SSH_PROGRAM in options.h . By default |
| 75 | 73 the progress meter isn't compiled in to save space, you can enable it by |
| 74 adding 'SCPPROGRESS=1' to the make commandline. |