Public Key Authentication in Dropbear

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Rami Al-Ghanmi edited this page Jul 16, 2013 · 1 revision

Generate SSH Keys

Dropbear uses a special format to store its keypairs.

Generate Keypair

dropbearkey -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Show Public Key

dropbearkey -y  -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa | grep '^ssh-rsa'

Connect to a Machine using the Public Key

ssh user@host -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa