Thank you very much for the help. I'll give it a try. I forgot to ask about setting up accounts, I'm guessing that needs to be done also.
Once the keys are in place, what is required for setting up accounts? Is there a document that explains that? On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:21:51 -0400 > b2112 <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snipp> > > > I don't know where to place my host keys and what to call them. My root > > filesystem is read only and I have a .ssh directory at the root. > > > > Is there a procedure available that explains the names of the associated > > config and/or keys files and where they need to be placed on the target > file > > system. > > > > On my system I have the keys in /etc/dropbear > > ~ > ls -la /etc/dropbear > total 8 > -rw------- 1 root root 457 2009-01-16 14:21 dropbear_dss_host_key > -rw------- 1 root root 427 2009-01-16 14:21 dropbear_rsa_host_key > > From the README file in dropbear source code: > > To run the server, you need to generate server keys, this is one-off: > dropbearkey -t rsa -f dropbear_rsa_host_key > dropbearkey -t dss -f dropbear_dss_host_key > > or alternatively convert OpenSSH keys to Dropbear: > dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > dropbear_dss_host_key > > Location of where to store the keys is configured by > > #ifndef DSS_PRIV_FILENAME > #define DSS_PRIV_FILENAME "/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key" > #endif > #ifndef RSA_PRIV_FILENAME > #define RSA_PRIV_FILENAME "/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key" > #endif > > which you'll find in options.h in the source code. > > Happy dropbearing (-: > > <snipp> > > -- > Best regards, > Hans-Christian Egtvedt >
