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Arch Linux: Remove DropBear key limitation note
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ed25519 support: mkj/dropbear#91

Signed-off-by: Vlad Petrov <ejiek@mail.ru>
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ejiektpobehuk committed Mar 23, 2021
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vi /etc/dropbear/root_key

Note that dropbear only supports RSA keys.

#. Edit mkinitcpio::

tee /etc/mkinitcpio.conf <<- 'EOF'
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ssh-keygen -Am pem

Note: Dropbear already support ED25519 host key but until support is `merged in mkinitcpio-dropbear <https://github.com/grazzolini/mkinitcpio-dropbear/pull/13>` and `packaged <https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/mkinitcpio-dropbear/>` you have to manually convert this key:

dropbearconvert openssh dropbear /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key /etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_key

#. Regenerate initramfs::

mkinitcpio -P
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