Hi Kenny, I don't think I've seen that problem before. Does Dropbear log anything in /var/log/auth.log or similar? Or if logging isn't set up on the system, if you run dropbear -F -E it will log to the console. The clock shouldn't make any difference.
Cheers, Matt > On Thu 20/6/2019, at 11:15 am, Kenny Koller <ke...@stealthspacecompany.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Xilinx's 2019.1 Petalinux system which uses Dropbear 2018.76 by > default. The target is > a Zynq 7000 running Linux. > > The first issue is that with the open-ssh client the first password attempt > fails every time. The > second attempt works. This was before I configured any host/login keys. A > console login does not > have this issue. > > The second issue is that with the host/login keys in place I continue to be > prompted twice when > using ssh. With dbclient I am rejected altogether: > > radsys@radsys-nuc:~$ dbclient root@10.160.33.150 <mailto:root@10.160.33.150> > -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa > root@10.160.33.150 <mailto:root@10.160.33.150>'s password: > root@10.160.33.150 <mailto:root@10.160.33.150>'s password: > > dbclient: Connection to root@10.160.33.150 <mailto:root@10.160.33.150>:22 > exited: Error reading: Connection reset by peer > > My client system is Ubuntu 16.04 with the login (private) key stored as > follows. It was generated > with dropbearkey: > > radsys@radsys-nuc:~$ ls -al .ssh > drwx------ 2 radsys radsys 4096 Jun 19 19:33 . > drwxr-xr-x 35 radsys radsys 4096 Jun 17 19:20 .. > -rw------- 1 radsys radsys 805 Jun 19 19:31 id_rsa > > On the server/embedded side I have the public portion of the private key > above in authorized_keys > and a host key also generated using dropbearkey. > > root@radio:~# ls -al /etc/dropbear > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 20 02:25 . > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 0 Jun 20 02:26 .. > -rw------- 1 root root 393 Jun 20 02:25 authorized_keys > -rw------- 1 root root 805 Jun 20 02:25 dropbear_rsa_host_key > > Also, my clock is not set correctly on the embedded system. Is this an issue? > > Help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Kenny
