3 dbclient \- lightweight SSH2 client
9 .I l\fR:\fIh\fR:\fIr\fR] [\-R
10 .I l\fR:\fIh\fR:\fIr\fR] [\-l
18 .I [user1]@host1[/port1],[user2]@host2[/port2],...
22 is a SSH 2 client designed to be small enough to be used in small memory
23 environments, while still being functional and secure enough for general use.
35 Read the identity from file
39 .B \-L \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR
40 Local port forwarding.
43 on the local host through the SSH connection to port
48 .B \-R \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR
49 Remote port forwarding.
52 on the remote host through the SSH connection to port
70 Don't request a remote shell or run any commands. Any command arguments are ignored.
73 Fork into the background after authentication. A command argument (or -N) is required.
74 This is useful when using password authentication.
77 Allow non-local hosts to connect to forwarded ports. Applies to -L and -R
78 forwarded ports, though remote connections to -R forwarded ports may be limited
82 Always accept hostkeys if they are unknown. If a hostkey mismatch occurs the
83 connection will abort as normal.
86 Forward agent connections to the remote host. dbclient will use any
87 OpenSSH-style agent program if available ($SSH_AUTH_SOCK will be set) for
88 public key authentication. Forwarding is only enabled if -A is specified.
91 Specify the per-channel receive window buffer size. Increasing this
92 may improve network performance at the expense of memory use. Use -h to see the
95 .B \-K \fItimeout_seconds
96 Ensure that traffic is transmitted at a certain interval in seconds. This is
97 useful for working around firewalls or routers that drop connections after
98 a certain period of inactivity. The trade-off is that a session may be
99 closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A setting
100 if 0 disables keepalives.
102 .B \-I \fIidle_timeout
103 Disconnect the session if no traffic is transmitted or received for \fIidle_timeout\fR seconds.
105 .B \-J \fIproxy_command
106 Use the standard input/output of the program \fIproxy_command\fR rather than using
107 a normal TCP connection. A hostname should be still be provided, as this is used for
108 comparing saved hostkeys.
110 .B \-B \fIendhost:endport
111 "Netcat-alike" mode, where Dropbear will connect to the given host, then create a
112 forwarded connection to \fIendhost\fR. This will then be presented as dbclient's
113 standard input/output.
115 Dropbear will also allow multiple "hops" to be specified, separated by commas. In
116 this case a connection will be made to the first host, then a TCP forwarded
117 connection will be made through that to the second host, and so on. Hosts other than
118 the final destination will not see anything other than the encrypted SSH stream.
119 A port for a host can be specified with a slash (eg matt@martello/44 ).
120 This syntax can also be used with scp or rsync (specifying dbclient as the
121 ssh/rsh command). A file can be "bounced" through multiple SSH hops, eg
123 scp -S dbclient matt@martello,root@wrt,canyons:/tmp/dump .
125 Note that hostnames are resolved by the prior hop (so "canyons" would be resolved by the host "wrt")
126 in the example above, the same way as other -L TCP forwarded hosts are. Host keys are
127 checked locally based on the given hostname.
132 A password to use for remote authentication can be specified in the environment
133 variable DROPBEAR_PASSWORD. Care should be taken that the password is not
134 exposed to other users on a multi-user system, or stored in accessible files.
137 dbclient can use an external program to request a password from a user.
138 SSH_ASKPASS should be set to the path of a program that will return a password
139 on standard output. This program will only be used if either DISPLAY is set and
140 standard input is not a TTY, or the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS_ALWAYS is
143 Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au).
145 Mihnea Stoenescu wrote initial Dropbear client support
147 Gerrit Pape (pape@smarden.org) wrote this manual page.
149 dropbear(8), dropbearkey(8)
151 http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html