<html><head></head><body>Hi,<br>
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Dropbear has its own key format and doesn't support passphrases (encrypted keys). OpenSSH might be getting confused by the unknown format so asks for a passphrase, while dbclient just falls back to password authentication? dropbearconvert can convert the formats.<br>
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Have a look at the Dropbear log /var/log/auth.log if you can, or run with "dropbear -F -E" interactively to log to stdout. In a boot script you should be able to run "dropbear -E" for just the logging to the console.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 April 2014 5:03:29 pm AWST, Logan Anderson <loggiew@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Guys,<div><br /></div><div>I added drop bear to an initramfs I am building for PXE. No matter what I do, dropbear appears to require an ssh passphrase and I really don't know how to handle this. It doesn't ask me for a passphrase when I create the key.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>It appears to ask for the passphrase when I use ssh but it simply asks for a password when I use dbclient. What am I doing wrong?</div><div><br /></div><div>Any direction would be welcome.</div></div>
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