Mercurial > dropbear
changeset 1918:863f31b4cf3c
Document supported formats for dropbearconvert
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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| date | Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:03:50 +0800 |
| parents | f8ed10efaaac |
| children | ff8a81386a2b |
| files | dropbearconvert.1 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/dropbearconvert.1 Wed Mar 30 11:51:56 2022 +0800 +++ b/dropbearconvert.1 Wed Mar 30 12:03:50 2022 +0800 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .I output_file .SH DESCRIPTION .B Dropbear -and +and .B OpenSSH SSH implementations have different private key formats. .B dropbearconvert @@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ .SH ARGUMENTS .TP .I input_type -Either +Either .I dropbear -or +or .I openssh .TP .I output_type -Either +Either .I dropbear -or +or .I openssh .TP .I input_file @@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ .TP .I output_file The path to write the converted private key file. For client authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default +.SH SUPPORTED FORMATS +.B dropbearconvert +can read OpenSSH format files, and older PEM format files ( +.B ssh-keygen +.I -m PEM +). +.B dropbearconvert +will write OpenSSH format files, usable with OpenSSH 6.5 and later. +Reading OpenSSH format DSS files or PKCS8 files is not currently supported. .SH EXAMPLE # dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dropbear .SH AUTHOR