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Arch Linux: describe ed25519 support #131

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Arch Linux: Remove DropBear key limitation note
ejiektpobehuk Mar 7, 2021
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more concise wording; fix rst formatting
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions docs/Getting Started/Arch Linux/Arch Linux Root on ZFS.rst
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Expand Up @@ -749,8 +749,6 @@ Optional Configuration

vi /etc/dropbear/root_key

Note that dropbear only supports RSA keys.

#. Edit mkinitcpio::

tee /etc/mkinitcpio.conf <<- 'EOF'
Expand All @@ -769,6 +767,17 @@ Optional Configuration

ssh-keygen -Am pem

#. Manually convert ed25519 host key to dropbear
-readable format::

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

`mkinitcpio-dropbear
<https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/mkinitcpio-dropbear/>`__,
lacks support for converting ed25519 host key,
`see this pull request
<https://github.com/grazzolini/mkinitcpio-dropbear/pull/13>`__.

#. Regenerate initrd::

mkinitcpio -P
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