need help with key generation

[Matt Johnston]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:41:56PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> 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.

Yep, the keys there should work fine. I haven't updated the
manpages yet for the client-mode changes, I'll get around to
it at some point.

Matt