Mercurial > dropbear
changeset 472:d7b0c015fdc7
Add SSH_ASKPASS and DROPBEAR_PASSWORD to the dbclient manpage
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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| date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:25:02 +0000 |
| parents | ece7677359d6 |
| children | 170329dc8ce5 |
| files | dbclient.1 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/dbclient.1 Thu Mar 27 13:17:08 2008 +0000 +++ b/dbclient.1 Thu Mar 27 13:25:02 2008 +0000 @@ -86,6 +86,19 @@ 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