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authorMatt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>2021-08-19 23:17:34 +0800
committerMatt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>2021-08-19 23:17:34 +0800
commit69e5709f75981bf0f5147c5f1d95a0f4fdf11b6f (patch)
treea61b505dd9a8a84005953d3212046490c38cc6d2
parent2157d5235226c0f03ba0440df1fdf7c0548bf9d8 (diff)
Clarify help text for dropbear -e environment option
-rw-r--r--dropbear.85
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dropbear.8 b/dropbear.8
index ad9f0ee..3073dd0 100644
--- a/dropbear.8
+++ b/dropbear.8
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ Log to standard error rather than syslog.
.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.