dropbear on uClinux config

b2112 blavo2112 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 21:12:04 WST 2009


Thank you very much for the help.  I'll give it a try.

I forgot to ask about setting up accounts, I'm guessing that needs to be
done also.

Once the keys are in place, what is required for setting up accounts?  Is
there a document that explains that?



On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt <
hans-christian.egtvedt at atmel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:21:51 -0400
> b2112 <blavo2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snipp>
>
> > I don't know where to place my host keys and what to call them.  My root
> > filesystem is read only and I have a .ssh directory at the root.
> >
> > Is there a procedure available that explains the names of the associated
> > config and/or keys files and where they need to be placed on the target
> file
> > system.
> >
>
> On my system I have the keys in /etc/dropbear
>
> ~ > ls -la /etc/dropbear
> total 8
> -rw------- 1 root root 457 2009-01-16 14:21 dropbear_dss_host_key
> -rw------- 1 root root 427 2009-01-16 14:21 dropbear_rsa_host_key
>
> From the README file in dropbear source code:
>
> To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off:
> dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key
> dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key
>
> or alternatively convert OpenSSH keys to Dropbear:
> dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> dropbear_dss_host_key
>
> Location of where to store the keys is configured by
>
> #ifndef DSS_PRIV_FILENAME
> #define DSS_PRIV_FILENAME "/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key"
> #endif
> #ifndef RSA_PRIV_FILENAME
> #define RSA_PRIV_FILENAME "/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key"
> #endif
>
> which you'll find in options.h in the source code.
>
> Happy dropbearing (-:
>
> <snipp>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Hans-Christian Egtvedt
>
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