need help with key generation

[Pollywog]

On 09/29/2004 06:12 am, Juergen Daubert wrote:
> 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).

Thank you, I tried a similar command but apparently I was not doing it 
correctly.

I assume I can add a public key to my desktop (running OpenSSH) ~/.ssh/
authorized_keys without modification once I extract it using the above 
command.

8)