Initial client release (0.44test1)

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sun Aug 15 19:38:11 WST 2004


Hi all.

I've put a release of Dropbear with client functionality up for testing,
at http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/testing/

>From my own use it seems usable and relatively stable, though I'm sure
there are issues yet to be uncovered :) Password and pubkey auth both
work, TCP forwarding works. I haven't got support for OpenSSH/encrypted
pubkeys, or agent forwarding yet, though I'd like to add those.

Various changes have been made to the shared and server portions of the
codebase, so it is probably worth testing the server if you want to use
that as well.

In terms of binary size, compiling on i386 Debian unstable, I get these
results (stripped, standard options.h):

0.43
dropbear - 107084 bytes

0.44test1
dropbear - 109676 bytes
dbclient - 97188 bytes

dropbearmulti - 119520 bytes
(compiled with 'make MULTI=1 PROGRAMS="dropbear dbclient"' - note the new
syntax)

I'll look at getting the plain server down to its previous size, I'm
interested to hear how other platforms fare. Also, if anyone has a better
name than "dbclient", let me know :)

Cheers,
Matt


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