Try without identifying current user Small change that warns the user if the current user cannot be identified rather than aborting. This came in handy when I put dropbear on a dlink that did not have a true user environment. Falling back on the "-l" option and user@ options works just fine as a client. The only implication I found is that the -J option will fail ungracefully without a known own_user.

#! /bin/sh
set -e

test "$1" = 'purge' || exit 0
if test -e /etc/dropbear; then
  rm -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
  rm -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
  rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /etc/dropbear
fi
update-rc.d dropbear remove >/dev/null
rm -f /etc/default/dropbear
rm -rf /etc/dropbear/supervise /etc/dropbear/log/supervise