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author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 04:56:50 +0000 |
parents | c2ac796b130e |
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--- a/README Sun Aug 08 16:57:37 2004 +0000 +++ b/README Sun Sep 12 04:56:50 2004 +0000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is Dropbear, a smallish SSH 2 server. +This is Dropbear, a smallish SSH 2 server and client. INSTALL has compilation instructions. @@ -12,3 +12,63 @@ Matt Johnston [email protected] + + +In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow: +============================================================================ + +Server public key auth: + +You can use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the same way as with OpenSSH, just put +the key entries in that file. They should be of the form: + +ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAwVa6M6cGVmUcLl2cFzkxEoJd06Ub4bVDsYrWvXhvUV+ZAM9uGuewZBDoAqNKJxoIn0Hyd0Nk/yU99UVv6NWV/5YSHtnf35LKds56j7cuzoQpFIdjNwdxAN0PCET/MG8qyskG/2IE2DPNIaJ3Wy+Ws4IZEgdJgPlTYUBWWtCWOGc= someone@hostname + +You must make sure that ~/.ssh, and the key file, are only writable by the +user. + +NOTE: Dropbear ignores authorized_keys options such as those described in the +OpenSSH sshd manpage, and will not allow a login for these keys. + +============================================================================ + +Client public key auth: + +Dropbear can do public key auth as a client, but you will have to convert +OpenSSH style keys to Dropbear format, or use dropbearkey to create them. + +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. + +============================================================================ + +If you want to get the public-key portion of a Dropbear private key, look at +dropbearkey's '-y' option. + +============================================================================ + +To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off: +./dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key +./dropbearkey -t dss -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 + +============================================================================ + +If the server is run as non-root, you most likely won't be able to allocate a +pty, and you cannot login as any user other than that running the daemon +(obviously). Shadow passwords will also be unusable as non-root. + +============================================================================ + +The Dropbear distribution includes a standalone version of OpenSSH's scp +program. You can compile it with "make scp", you may want to change the path +of the ssh binary, specified near the top of the scp.c file. By default +the progress meter isn't compiled in to save space, you can enable it by +adding 'SCPPROGRESS=1' to the make commandline.