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avoid getpass when not used
some systems (like android's bionic) do not provide getpass. you can
disable ENABLE_CLI_PASSWORD_AUTH & ENABLE_CLI_INTERACT_AUTH to avoid
its use (and rely on pubkey auth), but the link still fails because
the support file calls getpass. do not define this func if both of
those auth methods are not used.
| author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:39:55 +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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| 75 | 18 In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow: |
| 72 | 19 ============================================================================ |
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21 Server public key auth: |
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| 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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| 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 |
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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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| 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. | |
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| 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. |