James,
What I suggested was not to recompile dropbear for the VPS, but download
and compile the same version of dropbear *on your computer* (or whatever is
the machine you are using to connect to the VPC from). Then use dbclient
instead of ssh to connect to the VPS.
If you can write on the VPC,
On 2022-06-25 7:49 am, James Miller wrote:
I set up a small low-resource VPS a few years ago to use mainly as a
light-use xmpp server. I got Dropbear operating there so I could admin
it. Dropbear seemed a good choice since system resources were so
anemic. I recall it being quite challenging to
I know I am not directly answering your question, but have you thought of
building dropbear v2017.75 on your PC and use dbclient to connect (instead
of ssh) to your VPS ?
If you must use openssh, I would look into the ssh client settings to see
if there is some sort of configurable parameters that
> Sometime during the interval after I set that up, key-pair authentication
> has stopped working again. So I've had to re-enable username/password
> authentication. I'm now trying to determine why it happened that the
> key-pair authentication stopped working and am hoping I can somehow
>
I set up a small low-resource VPS a few years ago to use mainly as a
light-use xmpp server. I got Dropbear operating there so I could admin it.
Dropbear seemed a good choice since system resources were so anemic. I
recall it being quite challenging to get key-pair authentication to
finally
