need help with key generation

[Juergen Daubert]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:59:26AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> I installed OpenZaurus on my Zaurus SL-5500 (the GPE version) and instead of 
> OpenSSH, it has Dropbear.  I am able to ssh to the Zaurus from my desktop 
> machine, but I am unable to figure out how to generate user keys (I was able 
> to generate only the secret key id_rsa but not a public key to go in my home 
> directory and to be added to the keys on the desktop machine in ~/.ssh/
> authorized_keys

You can extract the publickey and fingerprint from your keyfile using

  dropbearkey -y -f <path_to_your_dropbear_key>

btw, this option is not descrided in dropbearkey(8).

Greetings
Juergen


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