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Make sure hostkeys are flushed to disk to avoid empty files if the power fails. Based on patch from Peter Korsgaard
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:15:16 +0800
parents 830fae485d40
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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 OPTIONS
.TP
.B input type
Either 
.I dropbear
or 
.I openssh
.TP
.B output type
Either 
.I dropbear
or 
.I openssh
.TP
.B input file
An existing Dropbear or OpenSSH private key file
.TP
.B output file
The path to write the converted private key file
.SH EXAMPLE
 # dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/dropbear_priv
.SH AUTHOR
Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
.SH SEE ALSO
 dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1)
.P
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html