That sounds highly accurate. Thanks for the info. I'll let you know tomorrow how it goes.
Logan On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Matt Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >
