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Enable dropbear on boot to decrypt full disk encryption

  • install dropbear-initramfs
  • put public rsa key in /etc/dropbear/initramfs/authorized_keys, prepend
    no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-x11-forwarding,command="/bin/cryptroot-unlock" ssh-rsa ...
  • f DHCP no config neccesary
  • in /etc/dropbear/initramfs/dropbear.conf
    DROPBEAR_OPTIONS="-p 4789 -s -j -k -I 60"
  • issue to add the keys and generate new initiramfs
    update-initramfs -u
  • (old) writeup: 


https://hamy.io/post/0009/how-to-install-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-18.04.x-server-and-enable-remote-unlocking/