I have my .ssh/id_rsa.pub file installed on several mesh nodes. From my linux laptop, I can ssh into any of the nodes, and it succeeds without asking for a password. But, if I try to ssh again, from a mesh node into another mesh node, it does query for password, i.e. it appears that ssh-agent forwarding is not working.

After Google searching, I see that dropbear version 0.52 is supposed to support ssh-agent forwarding, but there may have been a bug which was fixed in 0.53, and 0.55 is the latest version. The dropbear included in hsmm-mesh 0.4.2 is version 0.50. I also found http://wiki.openwrt.org/inbox/replacingdropbearbyopensshserver which suggests using openssh-server instead of dropbear.

Is a prebuilt binary of dropbear 0.55 available? Should I try to build it? Should I try using openssh-server? Any other suggestions or information?

- John AC6SL