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Add SSH_ASKPASS and DROPBEAR_PASSWORD to the dbclient manpage
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:25:02 +0000
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84 Ensure that traffic is transmitted at a certain interval in seconds. This is 84 Ensure that traffic is transmitted at a certain interval in seconds. This is
85 useful for working around firewalls or routers that drop connections after 85 useful for working around firewalls or routers that drop connections after
86 a certain period of inactivity. The trade-off is that a session may be 86 a certain period of inactivity. The trade-off is that a session may be
87 closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A setting 87 closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A setting
88 if 0 disables keepalives. 88 if 0 disables keepalives.
89 .SH ENVIRONMENT
90 .TP
91 .B SSH_ASKPASS
92 dbclient can use an external program to request a password from a user.
93 SSH_ASKPASS should be set to the path of a program that will return a password
94 on standard output. This program will only be used if either DISPLAY is set and
95 standard input is not a TTY, or the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS_ALWAYS is
96 set.
97 .TP
98 .B DROPBEAR_PASSWORD
99 A password to use for remote authentication can be specified in the environment
100 variable DROPBEAR_PASSWORD. Care should be taken that the password is not
101 exposed to other users on a multi-user system, or stored in accessible files.
89 .SH AUTHOR 102 .SH AUTHOR
90 Matt Johnston ([email protected]). 103 Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
91 .br 104 .br
92 Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page. 105 Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page.
93 .SH SEE ALSO 106 .SH SEE ALSO