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Hello. I'm used to working with openssh and putty, but I'm having a problem with dropbear.
I'm used to generating a public key and a private key. When I start dropbear it outputs what look like the public keys to standard out but then creates two files (dropbear_dss_host_key and dropbear_rsa_host_key) and wants to use them when it starts. These look like the private keys but when I've tried using a public key from either putty or openssh it won't use them.
I'd appreciate a quick how-to.
Thanks
Dave
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dave1_nyc wrote:
I'd appreciate a quick how-to.
dropbear and openssh use different formats and you need to convert between them. Have a look at dropbear's README file for the instructions:
http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0. … opbear.txt
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Thanks fonz, and I looked at that, but the readme file specifcially says that I can just use the authorized_keys file from openssh, and that the other two files are relevant when dropbear is the client. Am I misunderstanding this?
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Dave
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dave1_nyc wrote:
Thanks fonz, and I looked at that, but the readme file specifcially says that I can just use the authorized_keys file from openssh, and that the other two files are relevant when dropbear is the client. Am I misunderstanding this?
I can ssh into my DNS-323 that way just fine. There's a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the DNS-323 that contains my rsa public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on the ssh client host). You're right - I don't think I converted these (I'm using the same key with another box). If it still asks for a password, directory/file permissions are probably wrong.
If you still can't get it to work, please give more details.
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Thanks fonz. This was just stupid on my part, as I was also setting up keys for a wireless router and I had the wrong public key copied. Thanks much for your time; sorry to have wasted it.
Dave
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