dropbear ssh client and public key auth?

[jnewell at wgate.com]

Does this mean, dropbear is unable to provide passwordless ssh between the
dropbear client, and an openssh server?

Jim

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:47:16PM -0800, Justin Patrin wrote:
>> Does the dropbear ssh client support public key auth?
>
> Yes, though it requires the keys to be in Dropbear format.
> You can either use keys generated with dropbearkey, or
> convert an OpenSSH key with dropbearconvert
> ( dropbearconvert openssh dropbear openssh.key dropbear.key ).
>
> Just pass the keyfile to dbclient with -i. Currently there
> isn't support for encrypted private keys or using ssh-agent,
> I plan to implement those eventually.
>
> Matt