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Use HOME before /etc/passwd to find id_dropbear (#137)
Currently dbclient uses the value of HOME by default when looking for
~/.ssh/known_hosts, falling back to /etc/passwd if HOME is not set (so
that people can work around broken values in /etc/passwd).
However, when locating the default authentication key (defaults to
~/.ssh/id_dropbear), paths not starting with / are always prefixed with
the value from /etc/passwd.
Make the behaviour consistent by adjusting expand_homedir_path to use
the value of HOME, falling back to /etc/passwd if HOME is not set.
| author | Matt Robinson <git@nerdoftheherd.com> |
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| date | Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:02:47 +0100 |
| parents | 5c8913b7464c |
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.TH dropbearkey 1 .SH NAME dropbearkey \- create private keys for the use with dropbear(8) or dbclient(1) .SH SYNOPSIS .B dropbearkey \-t .I type \-f .I file [\-s .IR bits ] [\-y] .SH DESCRIPTION .B dropbearkey generates a \fIRSA\fR, \fIDSS\fR, \fIECDSA\fR, or \fIEd25519\fR format SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the Dropbear client or server. Note that some SSH implementations use the term "DSA" rather than "DSS", they mean the same thing. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-t \fItype Type of key to generate. Must be one of .I rsa .I ecdsa .I ed25519 or .IR dss . .TP .B \-f \fIfile Write the secret key to the file \fIfile\fR. For client authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default .TP .B \-s \fIbits Set the key size to .I bits bits, should be multiple of 8 (optional). .TP .B \-y Just print the publickey and fingerprint for the private key in \fIfile\fR. .SH NOTES The program dropbearconvert(1) can be used to convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH key formats. .P Dropbear does not support encrypted keys. .SH EXAMPLE generate a host-key: # dropbearkey -t rsa -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key extract a public key suitable for authorized_keys from private key: # dropbearkey -y -f id_rsa | grep "^ssh-rsa " >> authorized_keys .SH AUTHOR Matt Johnston ([email protected]). .br Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page. .SH SEE ALSO dropbear(8), dbclient(1), dropbearconvert(1) .P https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html