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This is Dropbear, a smallish SSH server and client.
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https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
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INSTALL has compilation instructions.
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MULTI has instructions on making a multi-purpose binary (ie a single binary
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which performs multiple tasks, to save disk space)
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SMALL has some tips on creating small binaries.
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Please contact me if you have any questions/bugs found/features/ideas/comments etc :)
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There is also a mailing list http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dropbear
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Matt Johnston
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matt@ucc.asn.au
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In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow:
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============================================================================
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Server public key auth:
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You can use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the same way as with OpenSSH, just put
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the key entries in that file. They should be of the form:
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ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAwVa6M6cGVmUcLl2cFzkxEoJd06Ub4bVDsYrWvXhvUV+ZAM9uGuewZBDoAqNKJxoIn0Hyd0Nk/yU99UVv6NWV/5YSHtnf35LKds56j7cuzoQpFIdjNwdxAN0PCET/MG8qyskG/2IE2DPNIaJ3Wy+Ws4IZEgdJgPlTYUBWWtCWOGc= someone@hostname
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You must make sure that ~/.ssh, and the key file, are only writable by the
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user. Beware of editors that split the key into multiple lines.
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Dropbear supports some options for authorized_keys entries, see the manpage.
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Client public key auth:
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Dropbear can do public key auth as a client, but you will have to convert
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OpenSSH style keys to Dropbear format, or use dropbearkey to create them.
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If you have an OpenSSH-style private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you need to do:
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dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db
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dbclient -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db <hostname>
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Dropbear does not support encrypted hostkeys though can connect to ssh-agent.
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If you want to get the public-key portion of a Dropbear private key, look at
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dropbearkey's '-y' option.
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To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off:
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./dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key
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./dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key
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./dropbearkey -t ecdsa -f dropbear_ecdsa_host_key
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or alternatively convert OpenSSH keys to Dropbear:
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./dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key dropbear_dss_host_key
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You can also get Dropbear to create keys when the first connection is made -
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this is preferable to generating keys when the system boots. Make sure
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/etc/dropbear/ exists and then pass '-R' to the dropbear server.
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If the server is run as non-root, you most likely won't be able to allocate a
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pty, and you cannot login as any user other than that running the daemon
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(obviously). Shadow passwords will also be unusable as non-root.
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The Dropbear distribution includes a standalone version of OpenSSH's scp
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program. You can compile it with "make scp", you may want to change the path
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of the ssh binary, specified by _PATH_SSH_PROGRAM in options.h . By default
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the progress meter isn't compiled in to save space, you can enable it by
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adding 'SCPPROGRESS=1' to the make commandline.
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