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Patch from Nicolai Ehemann to try binding before going to the background, so that if it exits early (because something's already listening etc) then it will return an exitcode of 1.
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:54:18 +0000
parents 2cd2edfa11ee
children 3e6c536bc023
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.TH dbclient 1
.SH NAME
dbclient \- lightweight SSH2 client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dbclient
[\-Tt] [\-p
.I port\fR] [\-i
.I id\fR] [\-L
.I l\fR:\fIh\fR:\fIr\fR] [\-R
.I l\fR:\fIh\fR:\fIr\fR] [\-l
.IR user ]
.I host
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dbclient
is a SSH 2 client designed to be small enough to be used in small memory
environments, while still being functional and secure enough for general use.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-p \fIport
Remote port.
Connect to port
.I port
on the remote host.
Default is 22.
.TP
.B \-i \fIidfile
Identity file.
Read the identity from file
.I idfile
(multiple allowed).
.TP
.B \-L \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR
Local port forwarding.
Forward the port
.I listenport
on the local host through the SSH connection to port
.I port
on the host
.IR host .
.TP
.B \-R \fIlistenport\fR:\fIhost\fR:\fIport\fR
Remote port forwarding.
Forward the port
.I listenport
on the remote host through the SSH connection to port
.I port
on the host
.IR host .
.TP
.B \-l \fIuser
Username.
Login as
.I user
on the remote host.
.TP
.B \-t
Allocate a pty.
.TP
.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.
.SH AUTHOR
Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
.br
Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page.
.SH SEE ALSO
dropbear(8), dropbearkey(8)
.P
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html