On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 03:54 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2010 12:44:48 Christopher Barry wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > First day with dropbear, and first post to this list. I've looked > > around on the web, but felt someone here could probably point me to the > > data. > > > > I have an admittedly unusual need to make dropbear function in a > > specialized initramfs environment. I'm using a static busybox, > > additionally a static bash4, and now a static multi dropbear. > > > > This is not the real system, so I want to try to keep the size > > reasonable, but I cannot get in via ssh, and I'm sure there are a bunch > > of c libs that handle auth w/ /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. required that > > I do not have in there. It basically has no concept of 'user' at this > > point. > > > > Does anyone know the minimal amount of stuff I need to make this work? > > > > > > Thanks for any bones you can throw my way. > > > > -C > > My FWL build system builds dropbear binaries statically linked against uCLibc > for a bunch of different targets. If you like, you can grab the binaries > from: > > http;//impactlinux.com/fwl/downloads/binaries > > (You can also download the system-image tarball for the appropriate target, > use the included scripts to boot them up under qemu, and build dropbear > yourself natively inside the emulator.) > > Rob
Wow! Thanks Rob. Built this way, will it have what's needed to log into the initramfs? I've added passwd and group file w/ root in there. Can you think of anything else I'd need? Cheers, -C
