Mercurial > dropbear
changeset 1533:2e9b6d9c7e7d
clarify that -r skips default hostkeys
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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| date | Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:57:47 +0800 |
| parents | 3616ec41d03d |
| children | b918ad1c5b25 a55a6901a181 |
| files | dropbear.8 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/dropbear.8 Thu Feb 22 21:55:15 2018 +0800 +++ b/dropbear.8 Thu Feb 22 21:57:47 2018 +0800 @@ -148,8 +148,10 @@ Host key files are read at startup from a standard location, by default /etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key, /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key, and /etc/dropbear/dropbear_ecdsa_host_key -or specified on the commandline with -r. These are of the form generated -by dropbearkey. The -R option can be used to automatically generate keys + +If the -r command line option is specified the default files are not loaded. +Host key files are of the form generated by dropbearkey. +The -R option can be used to automatically generate keys in the default location - keys will be generated after startup when the first connection is established. This had the benefit that the system /dev/urandom random number source has a better chance of being securely seeded.