[Buildroot] [PATCH] dropbear: add help text about key creation

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jan 12 22:35:20 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 > Commit e7d04dd2d replaced /etc/dropbear with a symlink to /var/run and
 > updated the start scripts to replace it with a real directory, so the
 > keys would be persistent. However, it turns out that this is pretty
 > confusing even for expert users, who don't know how to make the keys
 > really persistent now.

 > Update the help text explaining what the issue is, and telling the user
 > to replace the /etc/dropbear symlink with a symlink to a persistent
 > directory. Also mention the possiblity of unionfs.

 > Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>
 > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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