ssh problems after the beta upgrade - read here

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I thought i’d throw this out there in case anyone was having issues.

so i had a few scenes that ssh’d out to other boxes. this stopped working after the beta upgrade and i just now had time to site down and figure it out.
here are my findings (vera plus)

  1. the hostname of the device was reset to stock openwrt so instead of being root@Mios_yoursnnumber it was root@openwrt
    if you want to change it back
    edit /etc/config/system
    replace openwrt with Mios_your#
    save and reboot

  2. i was getting this error ssh: exited: string too long
    no problems before the upgrade, so i’m guessing the the version of dropbear was upgraded.
    i basically had to create a new key which sucks. but it’s only 3 boxes, so not the end of the world.

remove your existing key, or else this will fail
dropbearkey -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
that gets you a new ssh key, it will show it to you, record this because the ssh key file now appears to be encrypted so the only time you can see it is right after you create it.
if you cat it out you get garbage.

then go to your boxes and put the new key in.

ssh -y -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@ now works again.

ymmv