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authorMatt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>2013-03-03 11:47:41 +0800
committerMatt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>2013-03-03 11:47:41 +0800
commita9cf0ca25f4946751cf946447617ee2330930b88 (patch)
treeea29ee167a5995c73f95fa64f951354405e53c23
parent72a5612a294ef16eb157cafc483b2a975ed95f8e (diff)
improve subsystem/sftp documentation, and multi-hop manual formatting
-rw-r--r--cli-runopts.c2
-rw-r--r--dbclient.14
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cli-runopts.c b/cli-runopts.c
index 140b0cf..791326c 100644
--- a/cli-runopts.c
+++ b/cli-runopts.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static void printhelp() {
"-N Don't run a remote command\n"
"-f Run in background after auth\n"
"-y Always accept remote host key if unknown\n"
- "-s Request a subsystem (use for sftp)\n"
+ "-s Request a subsystem (use by external sftp)\n"
#ifdef ENABLE_CLI_PUBKEY_AUTH
"-i <identityfile> (multiple allowed)\n"
#endif
diff --git a/dbclient.1 b/dbclient.1
index 4472e70..69af18a 100644
--- a/dbclient.1
+++ b/dbclient.1
@@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ Specify a comma separated list of ciphers to enable. Use \fI-c help\fR to list p
.TP
.B \-m \fIMAClist
Specify a comma separated list of authentication MACs to enable. Use \fI-m help\fR to list possibilities.
+.TP
+.B \-s
+The specified command will be requested as a subsystem, used for sftp. Dropbear doesn't implement sftp itself but the OpenSSH sftp client can be used eg \fIsftp -S dbclient user@host\fR
+.SH MULTI-HOP
Dropbear will also allow multiple "hops" to be specified, separated by commas. In
this case a connection will be made to the first host, then a TCP forwarded
connection will be made through that to the second host, and so on. Hosts other than