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to branch 'au.asn.ucc.matt.dropbear.dbclient-netcat-alike' (head d1f69334581dc4c35f9ca16aa5355074c9dd315d)
author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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date | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:47:51 +0000 |
parents | d7b0c015fdc7 |
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--- a/dbclient.1 Tue Mar 21 16:16:41 2006 +0000 +++ b/dbclient.1 Sun Sep 14 06:47:51 2008 +0000 @@ -29,24 +29,23 @@ .I idfile (multiple allowed). .TP -.B \-L \fIlocalport\fR:\fIremotehost\fR:\fIremoteport\fR +.B \-L \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR Local port forwarding. Forward the port -.I localport -on the local host to port -.I remoteport -on the remote host -.IR remotehost . +.I listenport +on the local host through the SSH connection to port +.I port +on the host +.IR host . .TP -.B \-R \fIlocalport\fR:\fIremotehost\fR:\fIremoteport\fR +.B \-R \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR Remote port forwarding. Forward the port -.I remoteport -on the remote host -.I remotehost -to port -.I localport -on the local host. +.I listenport +on the remote host through the SSH connection to port +.I port +on the host +.IR host . .TP .B \-l \fIuser Username. @@ -60,10 +59,46 @@ .B \-T Don't allocate a pty. .TP +.B \-N +Don't request a remote shell or run any commands. Any command arguments are ignored. +.TP +.B \-f +Fork into the background after authentication. A command argument (or -N) is required. +This is useful when using password authentication. +.TP .B \-g Allow non-local hosts to connect to forwarded ports. Applies to -L and -R forwarded ports, though remote connections to -R forwarded ports may be limited by the ssh server. +.TP +.B \-y +Always accept hostkeys if they are unknown. If a hostkey mismatch occurs the +connection will abort as normal. +.TP +.B \-W \fIwindowsize +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. +.TP +.B \-K \fItimeout_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. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.B SSH_ASKPASS +dbclient can use an external program to request a password from a user. +SSH_ASKPASS should be set to the path of a program that will return a password +on standard output. This program will only be used if either DISPLAY is set and +standard input is not a TTY, or the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS_ALWAYS is +set. +.TP +.B DROPBEAR_PASSWORD +A password to use for remote authentication can be specified in the environment +variable DROPBEAR_PASSWORD. Care should be taken that the password is not +exposed to other users on a multi-user system, or stored in accessible files. .SH AUTHOR Matt Johnston ([email protected]). .br