[opensuse-factory] Relevance of the Dropbear package
Hi, is anybody using or does anybody know someone using Dropbear - a relatively small SSH server/client? Dropbear was originally added to have an SSH client without libpam dependencies to allow it being part of initrd - mainly for network boot on s390. But among others the introduction of IUCV made the use case obsolete. Since openSUSE is not really targeted at really small systems I am wondering if the package still has a purpose for openSUSE? Regards Tim -- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
On Wednesday 2016-03-16 17:15, Tim Hardeck wrote:
Dropbear was originally added to have an SSH client without libpam dependencies to allow it being part of initrd - mainly for network boot on s390. But among others the introduction of IUCV made the use case obsolete.
Inclusion into initrd is still on the table. dracut 44 started supporting that, for example to unlock crypto volumes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Tim Hardeck composed on 2016-03-16 12:15 (UTC-0400):
is anybody using or does anybody know someone using Dropbear - a relatively small SSH server/client?
Dropbear was originally added to have an SSH client without libpam dependencies to allow it being part of initrd - mainly for network boot on s390. But among others the introduction of IUCV made the use case obsolete.
Since openSUSE is not really targeted at really small systems I am wondering if the package still has a purpose for openSUSE?
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