Hei hei, On 28.10.2014 14:11, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Otherwise we can end up with an empty host key, breaking logins. > > E.G.: > > Run dropbear -R and pull power before the host key is writting to disk. > After reboot we have: > > ls -l /etc/dropbear/ > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 28 10:41 dropbear_ecdsa_host_key > > Which dropbear will try to read and fail:
I can confirm this can happen in the wild. We already had this issue and circumvented it by calling sync on the shell somewhere else in the init process, however I consider it a more elegant solution if dropbear would ensure this by itself. Greets Alex
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