dropbear in a specialized initramfs

[Christopher Barry]

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 03:54 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 12:44:48 Christopher Barry wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > 	First day with dropbear, and first post to this list. I've looked
> > around on the web, but felt someone here could probably point me to the
> > data.
> >
> > I have an admittedly unusual need to make dropbear function in a
> > specialized initramfs environment. I'm using a static busybox,
> > additionally a static bash4, and now a static multi dropbear.
> >
> > This is not the real system, so I want to try to keep the size
> > reasonable, but I cannot get in via ssh, and I'm sure there are a bunch
> > of c libs that handle auth w/ /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. required that
> > I do not have in there. It basically has no concept of 'user' at this
> > point.
> >
> > Does anyone know the minimal amount of stuff I need to make this work?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any bones you can throw my way.
> >
> > -C
> 
> My FWL build system builds dropbear binaries statically linked against uCLibc 
> for a bunch of different targets.  If you like, you can grab the binaries from:
> 
>   http;//impactlinux.com/fwl/downloads/binaries
> 
> (You can also download the system-image tarball for the appropriate target, 
> use the included scripts to boot them up under qemu, and build dropbear 
> yourself natively inside the emulator.)
> 
> Rob

Wow! Thanks Rob. Built this way, will it have what's needed to log into
the initramfs? I've added passwd and group file w/ root in there. Can
you think of anything else I'd need?

Cheers,
-C