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NAME
dropbearconvert - convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH private key formatsSYNOPSIS
dropbearconvert input_type output_type input_file output_fileDESCRIPTION
Dropbear and OpenSSH SSH implementations have different private key formats. dropbearconvert can convert between the two.Dropbear uses the same SSH public key format as OpenSSH, it can be extracted from a private key by using dropbearkey -y
Encrypted private keys are not supported, use ssh-keygen(1) to decrypt them first.
ARGUMENTS
- input_type
- Either dropbear or openssh
- output_type
- Either dropbear or openssh
- input_file
- An existing Dropbear or OpenSSH private key file
- output_file
- The path to write the converted private key file. For client authentication ~/.ssh/id_dropbear is loaded by default
EXAMPLE
# dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dropbearAUTHOR
Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au).SEE ALSO
dropbearkey(1), ssh-keygen(1)https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
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