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Fallback for key gen without hard link support (#89)
Add a non-atomic fallback for key generation on platforms where link()
is not permitted (such as most stock Android installs) or on filesystems
without hard link support (such as FAT).
| author | Matt Robinson <git@nerdoftheherd.com> |
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| date | Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:37:35 +0000 |
| parents | 80cacacfec23 |
| children | 863f31b4cf3c |
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.TH dropbearconvert 1 .SH NAME dropbearconvert \- convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH private key formats .SH SYNOPSIS .B dropbearconvert .I input_type .I output_type .I input_file .I output_file .SH DESCRIPTION .B Dropbear and .B OpenSSH SSH implementations have different private key formats. .B dropbearconvert can convert between the two. .P Dropbear uses the same SSH public key format as OpenSSH, it can be extracted from a private key by using .B dropbearkey \-y .P Encrypted private keys are not supported, use ssh-keygen(1) to decrypt them first. .SH ARGUMENTS .TP .I input_type Either .I dropbear or .I openssh .TP .I output_type Either .I dropbear or .I openssh .TP .I input_file An existing Dropbear or OpenSSH private key file .TP .I output_file The path to write the converted private key file. For client authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default .SH EXAMPLE # dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dropbear .SH AUTHOR Matt Johnston ([email protected]). .SH SEE ALSO dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1) .P https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html