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NAME
dropbear - lightweight SSH server
SYNOPSIS
dropbear [flag arguments] [-b banner] [-r hostkeyfile] [-p [address:]port]
DESCRIPTION
dropbear is a small SSH server
OPTIONS
-b banner
bannerfile. Display the contents of the file banner before user login (default: none).
-r hostkey
Use the contents of the file hostkey for the SSH hostkey. This file is generated with
dropbearkey(1) or automatically with the '-R' option. See "Host Key Files" below.
-R Generate hostkeys automatically. See "Host Key Files" below.
-F Don't fork into background.
-E Log to standard error rather than syslog.
-m Don't display the message of the day on login.
-w Disallow root logins.
-s Disable password logins.
-g Disable password logins for root.
-j Disable local port forwarding.
-k Disable remote port forwarding.
-p [address:]port
Listen on specified address and TCP port. If just a port is given listen on all addresses. up to
10 can be specified (default 22 if none specified).
-i Service program mode. Use this option to run dropbear under TCP/IP servers like inetd, tcpsvd, or
tcpserver. In program mode the -F option is implied, and -p options are ignored.
-P pidfile
Specify a pidfile to create when running as a daemon. If not specified, the default is
/var/run/dropbear.pid
-a Allow remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports.
-W windowsize
Specify the per-channel receive window buffer size. Increasing this may improve network
performance at the expense of memory use. Use -h to see the default buffer size.
-K timeout_seconds
Ensure that traffic is transmitted at a certain interval in seconds. This is useful for working
around firewalls or routers that drop connections after a certain period of inactivity. The trade-
off is that a session may be closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A
setting if 0 disables keepalives. If no response is received for 3 consecutive keepalives the
connection will be closed.
-I idle_timeout
Disconnect the session if no traffic is transmitted or received for idle_timeout seconds.
-T max_authentication_attempts
Set the number of authentication attempts allowed per connection. If unspecified the default is 10
(MAX_AUTH_TRIES)
-c forced_command
Disregard the command provided by the user and always run forced_command. This also overrides any
authorized_keys command= option.
-V Print the version
FILES
Authorized Keys
~/.ssh/authorized_keys can be set up to allow remote login with a RSA, ECDSA, or DSS key. Each
line is of the form
[restrictions] ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIgAsp... [comment]
and can be extracted from a Dropbear private host key with "dropbearkey -y". This is the same
format as used by OpenSSH, though the restrictions are a subset (keys with unknown restrictions
are ignored). Restrictions are comma separated, with double quotes around spaces in arguments.
Available restrictions are:
no-port-forwarding
Don't allow port forwarding for this connection
no-agent-forwarding
Don't allow agent forwarding for this connection
no-X11-forwarding
Don't allow X11 forwarding for this connection
no-pty Disable PTY allocation. Note that a user can still obtain most of the same functionality with
other means even if no-pty is set.
command="forced_command"
Disregard the command provided by the user and always run forced_command. The -c command line
option overrides this.
The authorized_keys file and its containing ~/.ssh directory must only be writable by the user,
otherwise Dropbear will not allow a login using public key authentication.
Host Key Files
Host key files are read at startup from a standard location, by default
/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key, /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key, and
/etc/dropbear/dropbear_ecdsa_host_key
If the -r command line option is specified the default files are not loaded. Host key files are
of the form generated by dropbearkey. The -R option can be used to automatically generate keys in
the default location - keys will be generated after startup when the first connection is
established. This had the benefit that the system /dev/urandom random number source has a better
chance of being securely seeded.
Message Of The Day
By default the file /etc/motd will be printed for any login shell (unless disabled at compile-
time). This can also be disabled per-user by creating a file ~/.hushlogin .
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Dropbear sets the standard variables USER, LOGNAME, HOME, SHELL, PATH, and TERM.
The variables below are set for sessions as appropriate.
SSH_TTY
This is set to the allocated TTY if a PTY was used.
SSH_CONNECTION
Contains "<remote_ip> <remote_port> <local_ip> <local_port>".
DISPLAY
Set X11 forwarding is used.
SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
If a 'command=' authorized_keys option was used, the original command is specified in this
variable. If a shell was requested this is set to an empty value.
SSH_AUTH_SOCK
Set to a forwarded ssh-agent connection.
NOTES
Dropbear only supports SSH protocol version 2.
AUTHOR
Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au). Gerrit Pape (pape@smarden.org) wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO
dropbearkey(1), dbclient(1), dropbearconvert(1) https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html dropbear(8)