Setup a Dropbear SSH Server on Bionic64-v8 and Bionic64-CE

[rockedge]

To set up a Dropbear SSH server in Bionic64-8.0 and Bionic64-CE
The Bionic64 must have the Devx.sfs installed and recommend the 32 bit compatibility libraries as well but that can be optional....

http://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=118885

[OscisTheBassist]

I am getting the "The requested page could not be found." message when clicking the link.
Perhaps this link is the correct one?
http://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=118885

[nathan-sr]

Following @rockedge 's guidance and adding some little tweaks from my end, here's what helped me to connect successfully to a bionic 64 puppy from another machine on the same network, through a terminal ssh client :

Steps to get an ssh connectivity from another machine's terminal program :

( All necessary files enclosed below )

1. Single click on the dropbear-2015.67-x86_64_bionic.pet and install it.

2. Right click the dropbear_config.sh file and choose the "Run in Terminal" option. This will create the necessary authorization keys. Do this only once.

3. Right click the start_dropbear.sh file and choose the "Run in Terminal" option. This will start the dropbear service in the foreground. Leave the window as it is, without closing it. If you need to run this in the background, on system startup, add the full path to this file in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and ensure execute permission for it, in its properties.

4. Set the password for the root user from the terminal, by typing passwd and press the return key, just once.

5. Now type :

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ssh root@ipaddress

and press return key from the terminal program of other machines on the same network for connectivity.

[rockedge]

Using a program like pUTTY to connect to a SSH server makes forwarding X11 easy to be able to open GUI's from the remote machine using Dropbear.