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@@ -86,6 +86,19 @@ useful for working around firewalls or routers that drop connections after a certain period of inactivity. The trade-off is that a session may be closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A setting if 0 disables keepalives. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.B SSH_ASKPASS +dbclient can use an external program to request a password from a user. +SSH_ASKPASS should be set to the path of a program that will return a password +on standard output. This program will only be used if either DISPLAY is set and +standard input is not a TTY, or the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS_ALWAYS is +set. +.TP +.B DROPBEAR_PASSWORD +A password to use for remote authentication can be specified in the environment +variable DROPBEAR_PASSWORD. Care should be taken that the password is not +exposed to other users on a multi-user system, or stored in accessible files. .SH AUTHOR Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au). .br |