Mercurial > dropbear
changeset 1820:e9854650d45b
Clarify help text for dropbear -e environment option
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:17:34 +0800 |
| parents | 5120e22882de |
| children | df8d8ec1801c |
| files | dropbear.8 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/dropbear.8 Thu Aug 19 17:13:41 2021 +0200 +++ b/dropbear.8 Thu Aug 19 23:17:34 2021 +0800 @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ .TP .B \-e Pass on the server environment to all child processes. This is required, for example, -if dropbear is launched on the fly from a SLURM workload manager. The enviroment is not -passed by default. Note that this can be a potential security risk. +if Dropbear is launched on the fly from a SLURM workload manager. The environment is not +passed by default. Note that this could expose secrets in environment variables from +the calling process - use with caution. .TP .B \-m Don't display the message of the day on login.