A hack to make dbclient to tcp forwarding netcat style. eg ./dbclient -i testkey -L 1234:remotehost:remoteport tunnelhost will ssh to tunnelhost (using testkey, there's no way to ask for a password) and then tcpfwd to remotehost:remoteport on stdin/stdout. There's no way to give a cmdline password, so -i for a keyfile will have to do. Yet another reason for agent forwarding. The 1234 is a dummy var, I think it has to be a valid portnumber though.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

test "$1" = 'remove' || test "$1" = 'deconfigure' || exit 0
if test -x /etc/init.d/dropbear; then
  if test -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d; then
    invoke-rc.d dropbear stop
  else
    /etc/init.d/dropbear stop
  fi
fi