On Sun, August 17, 2008 23:02, Per Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, David Härdeman wrote: >> Where does the SSH server get the passwords/keyfiles from? ... > Concerning key files, root's authorized_keys are copied to > ramdisk if they exist. Riku Voipio has verified that both > OpenSSH and Dropbear use the same key format for RSA > keys.
Cool...would it be possible to support a separate file, say /root/.ssh/authorized_boot_keys so that root can specify one or more keys that are *only* used for boot ssh access? And on a related note, did you know that we've added support to cryptsetup for getting a passphrase from an "external" source? Basically, if the machine is waiting at the cryptsetup passphrase prompt, you could (using your ssh-in-initramfs solution) log in and pipe the passphrase to /lib/cryptsetup/passfifo which would allow the boot to continue. Very useful on servers or embedded machines :) -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
