Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:50:01 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networked single-user recovery (Was: Re: Background fsck is broken) Message-ID: <20041215175001.GB17597@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20041215095337.T19917@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <44115.1103109518@critter.freebsd.dk> <20041215095337.T19917@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > You realize that you're advocating a statically linked sshd in /rescue, > right? :-) Dropbear is a smaller SSH implementation than the fully-fledged OpenSSH. Only tried it on Linux so far, and that was a year ago. It appears to ship with some SSL stuff built-in, and it doesn't need much besides a host-key (generator is in the dropbear package) and /dev/random or something. > I've always wanted a network recovery mode, and am currently looking into > implementing such a beast (For racks devoid of serial console muxers and > annoying jungles of kvm wires, for example). Or when there's insufficient documentation on how to get the LOM client to work under Linux/Solaris/*BSD... -- Matthias Andree
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