[Feature request] Package for OpenWRT

[callumgare]

Summary

Create an OpenWRT package of sshpiper so it can be run on a router running OpenWRT

More info

I completely understand if you decide to close this ticket as “out of scope” or “not planned” but I’d love to be able to run sshpiper directly on my home router. That way when I’m away from home I could ssh my home ip and have sshpiper forward the connection different devices. I currently have my router port forward 22 to a particular computer and then that computer runs sshpiper and forwards to other computers but it would be great to just run sshpiper directly on the router.

Thanks for your consideration and very useful piece of software!

[tg123]

more than happy to support openwrt, seems adding a go based app is not too hard but i am new to openwrt, let me dig it

btw pr is welcomed.

[ihidchaos]

Hi everyone, I have written a package for the OpenWrt platform, please help verify that it meets your needs. See sshpiper-openwrt.

At present, the sdk of the mt76x8 platform I use has been successfully compiled. If you need to verify on a specific platform and architecture, I can compile the corresponding software package for you.

[callumgare]

Oh fantastic! Thanks both!

@ihidchaos Can I take you up on that offer to build a package for specific platform? My router is the uses the ipq806x/generic target platform?

[ihidchaos]

Oh fantastic! Thanks both!

@ihidchaos Can I take you up on that offer to build a package for specific platform? My router is the uses the ipq806x/generic target platform?

Of course, please try this package. Since I don't know your OpenWrt distribution version(21.02 or 19.07 or older), I used the latest version of the SDK to compile. Note that the ipk package is inside the zip package. sshpiper_1.2.8-r1_arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4.zip

[callumgare]

Thanks! I'm on 23.05.0 so using latest seemed to work. Got it installed and I've worked out I have to set the env var SSHPIPERD_SERVER_KEY to /etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_key however I'm not sure how to solve the error message ssh: no key found. This is what I'm getting:

root@router:/tmp# env SSHPIPERD_SERVER_KEY=/etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_key sshpiperd workingdirbykey --root /etc/sshpiper
INFO[0000] starting sshpiperd version: (devel), go1.21.4
INFO[0000] found host keys [/etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_key]
INFO[0000] loading host key /etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_key
FATA[0000] ssh: no key found

[tg123]

use SSHPIPERD_SERVER_KEY_GENERATE_MODE to generate one?

please copy the key file and verify with sshd