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

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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.

Download Dropbear

create a directory /root/Build
extract the the downloaded .tar.bz2 file in /root/Build and cd into it
open a terminal and use:

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./configure --bindir=/usr/local/bin
make
make install

Dropbear requires encryption keys so create them so create a script to make them:

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#!/bin/sh
mkdir /etc/dropbear
cd /etc/dropbear
RSA_KEYFILE=/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
DSS_KEYFILE=/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
dropbearkey -t dss -f $DSS_KEYFILE
dropbearkey -t rsa  -f $DSS_KEYFILE

set the permissions to execute and run the script and the keys should appear in /etc/dropbear
open a terminal and use

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dropbear

Remember to set the root password with

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passwd

Test by connecting from another machine using a SSH client or from the command line in a terminal.