Problem with dropbear and uClibc / busybox

[Rich Ireland]

Brett,

I had the same trouble not long ago.  Your system doesn't have enough 
randomness in it.  Try changing the dropbear config to use /dev/urandom 
instead of dev/random.

See this thread:
http://codepoet.org/lists/uclibc/2005-February/011151.html

Brent Davidson wrote:
> I have been working on a custom embedded system with uClibc and busybox 
> and want to add dropbear for sshd functions, but I have run into a problem.
> 
> dropbear runs fine, but when I try to connect remotely or with dbclient 
> admin at localhost the server proccess logs "Child connection from 
> 127.0.0.1" and then the whole process freezes.  I am never presented a 
> login prompt.
> 
> I am compiling dropbear 0.44 with the MULTI=1 option under the pre-built 
> uClibc development environment.

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Rich Ireland
Firmware Engineer
Idaho Technology, Inc.
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