From owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Tue Oct 13 08:17:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3608A11736 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pkubaj@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [198.252.153.129]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9FF8BA5; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pkubaj@riseup.net) Received: from cotinga.riseup.net (unknown [10.0.1.161]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A852C0EC5; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 01:17:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=riseup.net; s=squak; t=1444724231; bh=MFyRjCfritTDj/l0Mi8wO4czS0XMSh0ojqlRZi/7A+w=; h=To:From:Subject:Cc:Date:From; b=dp+0ktUrl9ve+qhgsijAULJ7qdog/wzqNktF+VMUw9y7KqN7XPGpxIeyZ0rl2J+MC m5elHoegqDPNTonERT19jpYyatZlqDg3rsWyS4E8F3xB2syX5otORhf0dBvvi1OBtQ v1oX+nOyy/wRCooSCWLRPMfIebyTYH33imuvnz9w= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: pkubaj) with ESMTPSA id D61131C01EB To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org From: Piotr Kubaj Subject: Dropbear installed by default Message-ID: <561CBE04.1040900@riseup.net> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:17:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at mx1.riseup.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:17:18 -0000 Hi, I (and I think many people as well) would like to have remote access to MIPS systems (as opposed to serial-only). Although it's impossible with OpenSSH, it's quite possible with Dropbear, which I've tested personally on my 1043nd v1. I believe it would be convenient to have SSH by default, so that when you want to change your Wifi network password, you don't have unscrew your router :) As I've already patched your scripts and have Dropbear working, I can send you my patches, if you want to commit them. Also, another idea (a big one) is inclusion of Dropbear in base. AFAICS it has a MIT license, so license shouldn't be a problem. OpenSSH would still be the default, but I believe that Dropbear would be very useful to have on all MIPS boards, underpowered ARM boards (like Beaglebone Black or Raspberry Pi) and even some i386 boards (like ALIX from PC Engines). I know you don't have much time, but I think I could manage to do it myself, it's just that I don't want to do it only to find out that it can't be committed :) Bye, Piotr Kubaj.