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Dropbear Configuration

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The dropbear configuration contains settings for the dropbear SSH server in a single section.

Dropbear

The dropbear section contains these settings:

Name Type Required Default Description
enable boolean no 1 Set to 0 to disable starting dropbear at system boot.
verbose boolean no 0 Set to 1 to enable verbose output by the start script.
BannerFile string no (none) Name of a file to be printed before the user has authenticated successfully.
PasswordAuth boolean no 1 Set to 0 to disable authenticating with passwords.
Port integer no 22 Port number to listen on.
RootPasswordAuth boolean no 1 Set to 0 to disable authenticating as root with passwords.
RootLogin boolean no 1 Set to 0 to disable SSH logins as root.
GatewayPorts boolean no ? Set to 1 to allow remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports.
Interface string no (none) Tells dropbear to listen only on the specified interface.1)

This is the default configuration:

config dropbear
        option PasswordAuth 'on'
        option RootPasswordAuth 'on'
        option Port         '22'

1) e.g. lan, wan, henet

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doc/uci/dropbear.txt · Last modified: 2013/05/11 03:07 by jow