Hi, Dropbear has its own key format and doesn't support passphrases (encrypted keys). OpenSSH might be getting confused by the unknown format so asks for a passphrase, while dbclient just falls back to password authentication? dropbearconvert can convert the formats.
Have a look at the Dropbear log /var/log/auth.log if you can, or run with "dropbear -F -E" interactively to log to stdout. In a boot script you should be able to run "dropbear -E" for just the logging to the console. Cheers, Matt On 29 April 2014 5:03:29 pm AWST, Logan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >Guys, > >I added drop bear to an initramfs I am building for PXE. No matter what >I >do, dropbear appears to require an ssh passphrase and I really don't >know >how to handle this. It doesn't ask me for a passphrase when I create >the >key. > >It appears to ask for the passphrase when I use ssh but it simply asks >for >a password when I use dbclient. What am I doing wrong? > >Any direction would be welcome.
