Wiki Instructions update for identity.secret

[Andy589]

I’ve found that if you don’t run this command after the first reboot a new ZT address is created and needs to be re-auth after every reboot.

uci set zerotier.network.secret="$(cat /var/lib/zerotier-one/identity.secret)"

It took me several weeks of digging through various websites to figure that one out and it may be good to add it to the wiki.

[mwarning]

That should be done automatically: https://github.com/mwarning/zerotier-openwrt/blob/master/zerotier/files/etc/init.d/zerotier#L62

But maybe there is something broken..

[ogarcia]

@Andy589 if you read the wiki it says:

If now we take a look to our config we must have a new option called secret: ... (Sample config) ... The zerotier.openwrt_network.secret is the content of /var/lib/zerotier-one/identity.secret

Anyway just now I add a warning to remember to double check this point :wink:

[ogarcia]

But maybe there is something broken..

Or maybe Andy589 overwritten the config file by error. I cannot reproduce the issue, but anyway with the new note in the wiki I think that can close this ticket.

[Andy589]

I follow the wiki to the T. I’ve done it on several routers and have the same result every time. For reference I’ve been installing the package on GL iNet routers running openWRT 18.06.

[ogarcia]

@Andy589 seems that GL iNet devices has not a standard OpenWRT firmware, there is a lot of strange bugs with these devices :shrug:

[mwarning]

@Andy589 what OpenWrt release do you use? 18.06.7?

[Andy589]

Correct, it just seems that they put a “coat of paint” on top of openWRT as the underlying system is still complete and accessible to my knowledge.

OpenWrt 18.06.1 Kernel 4.9.120

[mwarning]

I inspected their zerotier package. It is Zerotier 1.2.8 and the init script uses option secret 'generate' to indicate that the secret need to be generated:

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/35e0b737ab496f5b51e80079b0d8c9b442e223f5/net/zerotier/files/zerotier.init#L48

This approach was rather fragile.