Minimal things needed for SSH login on Debian Linux
Uncategorized 1 CommentI was unable to find a place where all these things are collected, so I have decided I will write it down here.
So I am currently working on a little project where I need to have SSH access during the boot (on the initrd system). The following things are needed to create a working – as far as I know – minimal SSH server:
- ifconfig – to configure the network interface
- route – to configure the routing
- Dropbear SSH server – a very small, and fully functional SSH server, client, keygen
- /etc/login.defs
- /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/groups – for the authentication
- /lib/libnss_files* – for the authentication processing
- /etc/nsswitch.conf with the following content:
passwd: files
group: files
shadow: files
- /dev/pts – with devpts mounted (mount -t devpts none /dev/pts) for the terminals
On some systems the Dropbear needs a “better entropy device” than /dev/random, so we should symlink /dev/urandom to /dev/random.
And that’s all, everything should be fine now, and should run. I think I will write an another post with the whole “early ssh” thing soon, but I still need testing, and have to clean up my code somewhat.
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