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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am ssh’ing from Server-A to Server-B. Dropbear client/server is on Server-A and openssh client/server is on Server-B. </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>~/.ssh/ncp_key_dropbear in Server-A is of the correct Dropbear format.</span></code><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I can ssh from A to B like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'># cd </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>~/.ssh</span></code><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'># ssh -i ncp_key_dropbear root@192.168.1.124 -p 22</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In Dropbear is it possible in to create </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#242729'>a ~/.ssh/config file on Server-A like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='vertical-align:baseline;margin-bottom:calc(var(--s-prose-spacing) + 0.4em);font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;background-color:var(--highlight-bg);border-radius: 5px;overflow-wrap: normal;color:var(--highlight-color);orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;overflow:auto;word-spacing:0px'><code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Host ncp<o:p></o:p></span></code></pre><pre style='vertical-align:baseline'><code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> User root<o:p></o:p></span></code></pre><pre style='vertical-align:baseline'><code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> Port 22<o:p></o:p></span></code></pre><pre style='vertical-align:baseline'><code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ncp_key_dropbear<o:p></o:p></span></code></pre><pre style='vertical-align:baseline'><code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> HostName 192.168.1.124</span></code><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>… and then ssh like this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'># ssh ncp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When I do that on a host running OpenWrt I get the error:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>root@OpenWrt:~/.ssh# ssh ncp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ssh: Connection to root@ncp:22 exited: Connect failed: Error resolving 'ncp' port '22'. Name does not resolve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actually I get the same error even if I change the Port, in the config file, to 1022 even though the sshd on the remote host is also listening on port 1022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I CAN set up a config file on Server-B, that has an openssh client, and I can ssh from B to A like this and it works:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'># ssh openwrt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Flex<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>