SSH in Merlin vs DD-WRT

[tmorris1]

I ran a SSH server on my Cisco E3000 running DD-WRT. I have a key generated that I used in DD-WRT that was used with PUTTY as the client. I now have an AC66U that is running Merlin. I copied the key into Merlin and enabled SSHD, but it will not connect. Is the key format in Merlin different than DD-WRT?

 

[RMerlin]

Asuswrt-Merlin uses Dropbear, so it will take whatever key format Dropbear can support. No idea what DD-WRT uses.

 

[tmorris1]

DD-WRT uses Dropbear as well, that is why I was surprised it didn't work. The key was generated with Putty just like the process that is described for Dropbear.

 

[shooter40sw]

I came form DD-WRT also to Merlins Firmware and the key for SSH works with no problem, I just pasted from the BEGIN-- ------ to the END -----, no other modifications I generated the key with putty also.

 

[tmorris1]

I finally got my SSH server working. The same key worked, but with DD-WRT I had to login with "root" as the username. With the Merlin firmware I had to login with the same username that I logged into the router web interface with.