dropbear ssh client and public key auth?

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sat Nov 13 12:21:07 WST 2004


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:34:58AM -0500, jnewell at wgate.com wrote:
> Does this mean, dropbear is unable to provide passwordless ssh between the
> dropbear client, and an openssh server?
> 
> Jim

No, you can use a Dropbear client with an OpenSSH server.
The public-key portion (what dropbearkey -y gives you, and
dropbearkey prints on key generation, which you put in
~/.ssh/authorized_keys) is common between Dropbear and
OpenSSH.

Matt



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