Hi Gerrit, first I want to say thank you for maintaining dropbear and the cryptsetup patches. The package works well and reliable for me on a number of hosts.
However, it's a bit rough around the edges and didn't see any improvements for some time so I started to update it locally by myself. I created a man page for dropbearconvert, added a watch file, get-orig-source target, converted the package to Debhelper 9, enabled the compilation of dropbear scp, which is a long wanted feature in the Debian BTS and did some minor cleanup. This was around summer 2013, I lost interest after some time because I filed some bug reports (#720987, #692611, #715534) against packages you maintain (dropbear, git, dash) and since I saw no reaction I had a good excuse for myself to settle my work. I believe that the initramfs patches should be eventually moved from dropbear to cryptsetup-dropbear (and probably maintained in the cryptsetup source package) because they only utilize dropbear to have a SSH daemon running in the initramfs but they aren't needed to run dropbear itself. Or to put it another way: Just because you install dropbear doesn't mean you want to run it in the initramfs and decrypt your LUKS devices with it. Admittedly, that's probably the number one use case on Debian (as opposed to an embedded system like OpenWRT where the tininess is a also a compelling argument). I also believe that echo'ing your passphrase to /lib/cryptsetup/passfifo is a thing you don't want to do on a regular basis, instead a pass prompt like it appears when booting with an encrypted drive would be nice. All in all I believe that the "I want to unlock my drives remotely" problem actually needs a major redesign to, first, address some of the bugs in the BTS for dropbear and, second, be more user friendly and configurable. I fully understand that you probably have no interested in such a thing since you wouldn't even use it. I would be interested but I'm not even a Debian developer and a good solution would touch some packages (initramfs-tools, dropbear, cryptsetup at least) and has potential for great failure. Regards, Lukas On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> wrote: > Hi, in 2008 initramfs support was contributed to the dropbear package. > Unfortunately the contributor seems to be no longer active and quite > some bug reports concerning this feature have been collected in the BTS. > > Since I don't use ssh support in initrams, I hereby look for helpers or > even a co-maintainer who take care of the bug reports and further > development of this feature. > > A package git repository is available through > http://smarden.org/git/dropbear.git/ > and I'd be happy to receive patches through the BTS. > > Thanks, Gerrit. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20140114132404.7481.qm...@30c3a586213ae7.315fe32.mid.smarden.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacb1aev2ogwmsojj4ldwwdq9cqmp3uarxzphfamov7p9ryp...@mail.gmail.com