dropbearconvert broken?

[gds]

I appears that dropbearconvert doesn't work. It does no conversion and just prints the following output:

gene@flatbox:/tmp/home/root/.ssh# dropbearconvert openssh dropbear ./id_rsa ./id_rsa.db
Dropbear SSH multi-purpose v2014.66
Make a symlink pointing at this binary with one of the following names:
'dropbear' - the Dropbear server
'dbclient' or 'ssh' - the Dropbear client
'dropbearkey' - the key generator
'scp' - secure copy

The problem seems to be that the "master" dropbearmulti programs is not built to contain dropbearconvert. I think the dropbear Makefile.in needs to list dropbearconvert on the PROGRAMS= line:

dropbear: dropbear/config.h
    @$(SEP)
    @$(MAKE) -C $@ PROGRAMS="dropbear dbclient dropbearkey scp dropbearconvert" MULTI=1 $(PARALLEL_BUILD)

But somehow, the symlink "dropbearconvert" is pointing to "dropbearmulti". I don't see where in the build process this is occurring. But possibly a bit below in the Makefile.in it needs this to ensure the symlink is present:

    ln -sf dropbearmulti dropbearconvert

If dropbearconvert is intentionally not supported, then the symlink should not be present since it make it appear that dropbearconvert is supported.

 

[RMerlin]

What firmware are you running? There's no dropbearconvert symlink in mine.

 

[john9527]

The extraneous link/dropbearconvert fail was always there....here's a report from Aug 2015
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/dropbearconvert-not-working.26494/

It got fixed when the link got removed in your GPL 3264 merge for 380.60-beta1...

It's still in my fork....I'll remove it in the next release (or maybe try and enable dropbearconvert).

 

[gds]

The extraneous link/dropbearconvert fail was always there....here's a report from Aug 2015
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/dropbearconvert-not-working.26494/

It got fixed when the link got removed in your GPL 3264 merge for 380.60-beta1...

It's still in my fork....I'll remove it in the next release (or maybe try and enable dropbearconvert).

Yes, I saw that post too. I'm running 380.57. I only looked at the lastest git master code and didn't see anywhere the symlink was made. I needed to do the convert so ended up installing dropbear pkg on fedora and doing the convert there. I think it would be more complete to include this in the master branch (unless it uses huge memory).