From 69e5709f75981bf0f5147c5f1d95a0f4fdf11b6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Johnston Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:17:34 +0800 Subject: Clarify help text for dropbear -e environment option --- dropbear.8 | 5 +++-- 1 file 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. -- cgit v1.2.3