Running dropbear as unprivileged user to a single user SSH Server

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Aug 30 22:53:20 WST 2011


On 08/29/2011 08:27 AM, Antoine Catton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is in attachement the patch I submit for your review.
> I wasn't able to figure out how to override the user password. So far,
> it only overrides home directory and shell, it also ignores the
> authentification username ; it logs in as the user running dropbear SSH
> server.

I've bookmarked this to come back to, but I have to run to work now.

> Moreover, I'm not familiar with autoconf, I didn't know how to add
> options to ./configure enabling the right macros (ENABLE_SINGLEUSER and
> ENABLE_SINGLEUSER_ROOT).
> 
> I hope you will be able to do that, or give me some advice to do it.

Autoconf is an abomination that dropbear never should have fallen into
the clutches of.  When I started using it, it didn't do that.

> Thank you,
> 
> Regards,

Rob


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