authentication,
and now it's all running smoothly.
Thanks!
~ Kent
-Original Message-
From: Matt Johnston [mailto:m...@ucc.asn.au]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 9:27 PM
To: Hans Harder
Cc: dropbear@ucc.asn.au; Nixon, Kent W
Subject: Re: Running Dropbear Without Root Permissions
My gue
My guess is that the problem is related to /etc/shadow. If
the crypted password there isn't readable then it will use
the entry from /etc/passwd - I guess that's something like
'!!' which would signify a locked account.
For testing you can always hardcode a password crypt in debug.h
Cheers,
Matt
I have it running as a separate daemon on a few systems as a non root user
without problems..
I changed the config.h to disable all the features which might require more
rights than the user has or uses OS functions for instance
DISABLE_PAM, DISABLE_LASTLOG, DISABLE_SYSLOG
I only use the use
There is a need for privilege separation here, similar to what OpenSSH is doing.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Nixon, Kent W wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently testing my (default) compile settings of dropbear 2016.73 on an
> x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I'm running the dropbear server from
Hi all,
I'm currently testing my (default) compile settings of dropbear 2016.73 on an
x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I'm running the dropbear server from the terminal
of a standard user account and attempting to connect using dbclient as that
same user from the same machine just to test/learn how
