I would check for the presence of the dropbear-xinetd package and /etc/xinetd.conf and xinetd.d/ssh
The dropbear-xinetd package was absent while the other items
above were present. I created a new build with dropbear-xinetd but
the behavior is the same.
I used the failsafe mechanism to get telnet access into the boxes and
tried to pull in a good firmware image into /tmp as described here:
However when dropbear refused to start even manually I discovered
there is no dropbear executable on the router.
I compiled this build with :
CONFIG_DEFAULT_dropbear=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear-xinetd=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert-xinetd is not set
which was the config for 3.10.44-6 release, as described in
cerofiles-3.10 github repo, and which has a working ssh.
Do I need CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear even though 3.10.44-6
seems to get dropbear without including this config ?
In the absence of dropbear is there a good way to transfer files.
I couldn't find any file transfer options available in failsafe mode
other than a wget built into busybox. To use this I would
have to setup my mac as a webserver.
Ranga