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(-) [+]
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--- 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.