Mercurial > dropbear
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author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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date | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:58:51 +0000 |
parents | fe6bca95afa7 |
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--- a/README Thu Aug 12 17:18:53 2004 +0000 +++ b/README Fri Aug 13 10:58:51 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 +12,41 @@ Matt Johnston [email protected] + +============================================================================ + +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. + +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 + +And you can now run the server. +./dropbear + +or './dropbear -h' to get options. + +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 with +"make scp-progress". +