where does dropbear remember that its already created its key(s)?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  started dropbear for the very first on an embedded system with an
NFS-mounted root filesystem, it worked flawlessly creating the keys.
next day, someone else commandeered the system and mounted *their*
root filesystem which, not surprisingly, had no /etc/dropbear
directory, so dropbear immediately failed complaining about a lack of
the /etc/dropbear key file.

  i'm assuming that dropbear must have recorded somewhere that it
created the keys and therefore will complain if that file is missing.
where did dropbear record this event?  thanks.

  (or am i totally misunderstanding what happened here?)

rday
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