Dropbear key problem

[John Smith]

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> I have previously put the public key I got from
> dropbearkey -y -t dss -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
> into user at host:.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> In my local ~/.ssh I have only the files authorized_keys and known_hosts.
> The private keys are in /etc/dropbear/dropbear_*_host_key
> 
> Does that matter ? I tried with both rsa and dss key...
> -- 
You need to generate a user private and public key. See: http://pkeck.myweb.uga.edu/ssh/ for a general overview.

root at CHM-0742-00187:~/.ssh$ dropbearkey -t rsa -f id_rsa
Will output 1024 bit rsa secret key to 'id_rsa'
Generating key, this may take a while...
Public key portion is:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgwCxVe533yHtWgb11j+L6zHIRllDIp3xR3nEB3Jxjw9ZUXHXZGgXk/A06sd3AF4sUbo3YvRIuj5EzDfjy1SAUrpD3b4WU9bayoTie3LJ6FU5TSEySOWvrkW/4/iuFUAvry0G1ISlMEMqpLvoSx6JcE/UL4JoKIUzM2jnordtyR9gn53r root at CHM-0742-00187
Fingerprint: md5 5a:d7:ef:84:aa:40:11:4e:d5:3d:17:0d:b2:30:b0:8b


root at CHM-0742-00187:~/.ssh$ dropbearkey -y -f id_rsa
Public key portion is:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgwCxVe533yHtWgb11j+L6zHIRllDIp3xR3nEB3Jxjw9ZUXHXZGgXk/A06sd3AF4sUbo3YvRIuj5EzDfjy1SAUrpD3b4WU9bayoTie3LJ6FU5TSEySOWvrkW/4/iuFUAvry0G1ISlMEMqpLvoSx6JcE/UL4JoKIUzM2jnordtyR9gn53r root at CHM-0742-00187
Fingerprint: md5 5a:d7:ef:84:aa:40:11:4e:d5:3d:17:0d:b2:30:b0:8b
root at CHM-0742-00187:~/.ssh$ dropbearkey -y -f id_rsa > id_rsa.pub

Then edit id_rsa.pub so that there is a single line (note it is broken up here):

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgwCxVe533yHtWgb11j+L6zHIRllDIp3xR3nEB3Jxjw9ZUXHXZGgXk/A06sd3AF4sUbo3YvRIuj5EzDfjy1SAUrpD3b4WU9bayoTie3LJ6FU5TSEySOWvrkW/4/iuFUAvry0G1ISlMEMqpLvoSx6JcE/UL4JoKIUzM2jnordtyR9gn53r
root at CHM-0742-00187

Then append that key id_rsa.pub on the remote machine to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys

cat id_rsa.pub >> /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys

-snafu

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