macOS
brew install dropbearprovider-native install command
brew / rang 4412
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de dropbear pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install dropbearprovider-native install command
aperçu
Small SSH server/client for POSIX-based system
historique
Dropbear is a compact SSH server and client suite for POSIX systems, best known in package-manager culture as the SSH implementation people reach for when OpenSSH is too large or too operationally heavy. It provides `dropbear` for the server, `dbclient` for the client, and key/conversion utilities in a deliberately small package.
Dropbear development started in October 2002, with the first public release, 0.28, appearing on April 6, 2003. The early changelog shows the project quickly adding practical SSH server features such as syslog support, X11 forwarding, agent forwarding, local TCP forwarding, OpenSSH key conversion, and Debian packaging support during 2003.
The project has remained active for decades rather than becoming a frozen embedded artifact. Its current changelog includes 2026 releases with security fixes, scp hardening, algorithm-query support, forwarding improvements, and behavior changes made in response to modern SSH and libc realities.
Dropbear was adopted heavily by embedded Linux distributions, rescue environments, routers, initramfs setups, and minimal systems because it can provide SSH access with a much smaller footprint than a full OpenSSH deployment. Its package availability across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, and Nix reflects that cross-platform utility.
Typical package usage includes running `dropbear` as a lightweight SSH daemon, using `dbclient` as a small SSH client, generating host keys with `dropbearkey`, and converting keys with `dropbearconvert`. The documented host-key paths and OpenSSH-compatible authorized_keys behavior make it especially useful where users need interoperable SSH without installing the full OpenSSH stack.
Dropbear is package-nerd significant because it embodies the classic small-tools tradeoff: enough SSH compatibility for real deployments, intentionally less bulk than OpenSSH, and build-time options for constrained systems. It is also one of the few packages whose value is obvious both to embedded firmware builders and to people maintaining recovery shells on ordinary Unix systems.
posture de sécurité
Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour dropbear. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
~/.ssh/authorized_keys~/.ssh/id_dropbear/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key/etc/dropbear/dropbear_ecdsa_host_key/etc/dropbear/dropbear_ed25519_host_keyexécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
dbclient | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
dropbear | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
dropbearconvert | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
dropbearkey | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
fraîcheur
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métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:dropbear |
|---|---|
| Version | 2026.94 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page d'accueil | https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/mkj/dropbear |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-23T16:36:51Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bouteille | non enregistré |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
piste source
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
View the package source record on GitHub.