Package: dropbear Version: 2012.55-1.3 Severity: normal Hi,
I've been using dropbear to unlock my encrypted root partition remotely via SSH. This works quite fine in general, however, I've stumbled upon the following shortcoming: Dropbear configures the network using configure_networking() from initramfs-tools but never deconfigures it. The initscript networking which is part of the package ifupdown runs ifup during boot which then complains that the interface is already configured. This is quite annoying because I want to use a different network configuration in the initramfs compared to the normal system. configure_networking() uses ipconfig from package klibc-utils to configure the network. I took a look at the source code of ipconfig and found code that brings the interface up (netdev_up()) as well as down (netdev_down()). However, the latter isn't called from anywhere, so it's essentially dead code. In my opinion a fix would require work being done in the following three packages: * klibc-utils - A command line option to bring the interfaces down is needed. * initramfs-tools - A function to deconfigure networking is needed. * dropbear - The introduced function in initramfs-tools must be called to deconfigure networking. Regards, Lukas
