dropbear: "Failed loading .. " host key files warning messages
Camvan T Nguyen
ctnguyen at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 21 05:54:45 AWST 2018
In our environment, we generate an RSA host key in /var/lib/dropbear and
start the dropbear service with the following command:
/usr/sbin/dropbear -i -r /var/lib/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key -B
We are getting the following Warning messages:
Feb 20 06:08:50 witherspoon dropbear[1406]: Failed
loading /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
Feb 20 06:08:50 witherspoon dropbear[1406]: Failed
loading /etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
Feb 20 06:08:50 witherspoon dropbear[1406]: Failed
loading /etc/dropbear/dropbear_ecdsa_host_key
This is because in our environment, we don't generate the 3 types of host
keys in /etc/dropbear. Dropbear will first load the host key specified by
the -r option and then will also try to load all 3 types of host keys from
the default path /etc/dropbear. We propose the following patch be made to
dropbear svr-runopts.c such that dropbear will only load the host keys from
the default /etc/dropbear path if a key is not specified by the -r option.
>From b2048847702e00df8d404896323857f89cda215e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CamVan Nguyen <ctnguyen at us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:34:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Only load dropbear default host keys if a key is not
specified
---
svr-runopts.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/svr-runopts.c b/svr-runopts.c
index 3d97023..38a1b75 100644
--- a/svr-runopts.c
+++ b/svr-runopts.c
@@ -510,17 +510,20 @@ void load_all_hostkeys() {
m_free(hostkey_file);
}
+ /* Only load default host keys if a host key is not specified by the
user */
+ if (0 == svr_opts.num_hostkey_files) {
#if DROPBEAR_RSA
- loadhostkey(RSA_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
+ loadhostkey(RSA_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
#endif
#if DROPBEAR_DSS
- loadhostkey(DSS_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
+ loadhostkey(DSS_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
#endif
#if DROPBEAR_ECDSA
- loadhostkey(ECDSA_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
+ loadhostkey(ECDSA_PRIV_FILENAME, 0);
#endif
+ }
#if DROPBEAR_DELAY_HOSTKEY
if (svr_opts.delay_hostkey) {
--
1.8.2.2
Thanks,
CamVan Nguyen
POWER Firmware Tools Development & Support, STG
512-286-7756 T/L: 363-7756
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