Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It runs on a variety of unix platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers.
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2024.8604 Jan 2025 21:31
minor bugfix:
failure on concurrent channel open/. This was a regression in 2022.82, reported by rsflo in Github #321. failed assertion in common-channel.c:705: !channel- sent_. Print remote host after "Login attempt for nonexistent user" log entry to assist fail2ban. from MichaIng, the format changed in 2020.79. Dropbear now exits with exit status 0 on SIGINT/SIGTERM. This is a more graceful behaviour for "systemctl stop dropbear". Reported by Ninad Palsule. New IDENT_VERSION_PART config allows customising some of the SSH version string. From Marius Dinu. building SK_KEYS with just one of ECDSA or ED25519 From Marius Dinu. dbclient "-m help" and "-c help" without a hostname. Patch from Darren Tucker. Remove fprintf/gettimeofday from sigchld handler when running with verbose trace enabled. Improved configure help output, from Mikel Olasagasti Uranga. Compile for GNU Hurd, from Guilhem Moulin. Support running test_aslr without venv, from Guilhem Moulin. Compilation for older compilers, and better build tests. Update some test infrastructure versions of python packages, github actions, and github runner OSes.