On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Westerhof (mwester) <[email protected]>wrote:
> Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > just a short poll about dropbear / openssh. Up to now we are using > dropbear as > > SSH server. It is supposed to have a smaller footprint than the fully > fledged > > openssh. > > Dropbear does have a smaller footprint. However, on something as large > as the gta0x devices, the footprint difference is really noise. To > offer a datapoint, the SlugOS distro (built in OE using the same recipes > we use for SHR, FSO, and Om) replaced dropbear with openssh. SlugOS > runs on a device with a total of 32MB of ram, and 8MB of flash (yes, > "MB", not "GB"). So if openssh fits on such a device with no problems, > then any footprint difference with dropbear is completely noise on > something as large as the gta0x hardware. > > > > On the other hand it lacks some features that openssh has (x- > > forwarding and sftp for example). > > In addition to those features, openssh is the defacto-standard, which > means that documentation, hints, tips, and configuration information is > widely and easily available. This is not the case with dropbear. Also, > many other tools have support for openssh-format keys (putty, for > example, can convert openssh keys both ways) -- dropbear has a > proprietary key format. > > > What is your valuable opinion about that? We would be inclined to do that > > replacement... any strong opinion against that? > > No strong opinion _against_ -- just a strong opinion _for_ replacing > dropbear with the proper, standard, openssh server (and client). > > -Mike (mwester) > (your community curmudgeon) > (also the maintainer for the SlugOS distro, which switched to openssh) > > > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user > Mike, please provide more information about the footprint differences. If they are really like you claim they are, I vote +1 for openssh. Tom.
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