Agent forwarding (the other way around)

[William Trenker]

On 7/4/05, Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:02:59PM -0400, Bill Trenker wrote:
> > Dropbear server works very well with the openssh ssl client, including
> > tunnels.  Now I'm hoping I can use SSH-Agent auth so that I can use ssl to
> > access my dbserver system in some automated scripts.
> 
> Dropbear currently only supports agent authentication from
> non-dropbear clients to a dropbear server - that's what you
> want, right? 

Yes.

> You just need to set up ~/.ssh/authorized_keys the same way
> as with openssh server

Following your advice I simply setup authorized_keys and public key
authentication worked first time, like a charm!  I normally use
OpenSSH but I happened to be on a Windows XP box when I tried this so
I gave it a shot with Putty using keys created by Puttygen and it
works with the remote dropbear server just fabulously.  Then I thought
I'd go for the full meal deal and give Putty's auth agent, Pagent, a
try and agent-forwarding worked just like that as well.

Thanks, Matt.  You've done a great job with dropbear.

Cheers,
Bill