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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ matt@ucc.asn.au In the absence of detailed documentation, some notes follow: ============================================================================ -Public key auth: +Server public key auth: You can use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the same way as with OpenSSH, just put the key entries in that file. They should be of the form: @@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ OpenSSH sshd manpage, and will not allow a login for these keys. ============================================================================ +Client public key auth: + +Dropbear can do public key auth as a client, but you will have to convert +OpenSSH style keys to Dropbear format, or use dropbearkey to create them. + +If you have an OpenSSH-style private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you need to do: + +dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db +dbclient -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.db <hostname> + +Currently encrypted keys aren't supported, neither is agent forwarding. At some +stage both hopefully will be. + +============================================================================ + If you want to get the public-key portion of a Dropbear private key, look at dropbearkey's '-y' option. |