Comments on: Dropbear, SFTP and passwordless logins in Debian

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By: Whacko

Whacko — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:44:35 +0000

Another option as of Wheezy is to install dropbear and gesftpserver. Then create a symlink of /usr/lib/sftp-server pointing to /usr/lib/gesftpserver. gesftpserver is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for the sftp server that comes with openssh-server. It works perfectly for me, although the documentation for gesftpserver states it is still under heavy development.

By: FTP Hosting

FTP Hosting — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:10:04 +0000

The tutorial you shared is easy to understand and would be easy to follow.

By: morpheus

morpheus — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:49:44 +0000

Thanks “Another Nic” for pointing this out – I hadn’t noticed this before.

PuTTYgen does indeed allow for generation of a key pair – a very straightforward process, too !

By: Another Nic

Another Nic — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:17:38 +0000

PuttyGen can generate the private key directly, to cut down on the transferring of sensitive private keys. You’ll have to get your public key into authorized_keys file on the server still, but the public key is ascii and can be copy/pasted via a text editor running in PuTTY.
Also, if you want the extra security of using a passphrase, check out pageant from the putty toolset. It will let you type in your passphrase once, and then further putty sessions can use the key without needing you to reenter the passphrase, as long as pageant stays running in your tooltray.

@Paul: I’m suppose your comment is just spam, but in case you didn’t notice, this is talking about SFTP, the replacement for FTP that any right-minded person’s been using for at least a decade now. Which has keys, which remove the need for passwords, and are just as convenient as trying to “inbuild” the password into the “connection file”.

By: Pauls ftp storage

Pauls ftp storage — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:25:27 +0000

If you inbuild the password and username into the connection file then you won’t need to enter such info every time you want to connect. Less secure but more convenient.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:54:46 +0000

Hey I was looking for a way to disable root login in dropbear: thank you very much 🙂