Engima2 ssh key with dropbear

[alankellyeire]

hi

I need to access a receiver remotely but before i do i want to only allow ssh access with a key. i cant seem to connect to my box locally using the keys. this dropbear has me baffled there isnt much info i can find about using dropbear with keys.

there is a command dropbearconvert that is used to convert openssh keys to dropbear and the opposite, but where do i put the keys

thanks for any help.

[alankellyeire]

Re: Engima2 ssh key with dropbear

i got it working

here is what i did

generate key on your client
Code:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

transfer the public key to ur enigma box using secure copy
Code:

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@<BOX-IP>:/home/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

catenate the authorized_keys file with the public key. if there isnt a authorized_keys file make it.
Code:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /home/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

add the no password option below to the dropbear config file. use the text editor vi.
Code:

DROPBEAR_EXTRA_ARGS="-s"

now restart dropbear
Code:

/etc/init.d/dropbear restart