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Diffstat (limited to 'dbclient.1')
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@@ -111,11 +111,22 @@ if 0 disables keepalives. If no response is received for 3 consecutive keepalive .B \-I \fIidle_timeout Disconnect the session if no traffic is transmitted or received for \fIidle_timeout\fR seconds. .TP + +.\" TODO: how to avoid a line break between these two -J arguments? .B \-J \fIproxy_command +.TP +.B \-J \fI&fd +.br Use the standard input/output of the program \fIproxy_command\fR rather than using a normal TCP connection. A hostname should be still be provided, as this is used for comparing saved hostkeys. This command will be executed as "exec proxy_command ..." with the default shell. + +The second form &fd will make dbclient use the numeric file descriptor as a socket. This +can be used for more complex tunnelling scenarios. Example usage with socat is + +socat EXEC:'dbclient -J &38 ev',fdin=38,fdout=38 TCP4:host.example.com:22 + .TP .B \-B \fIendhost:endport "Netcat-alike" mode, where Dropbear will connect to the given host, then create a |