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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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