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This dropbear-2025.87_2.pet package installs the Dropbear SSH server version 2025.87

Tested on Noblepup64, may work on F96-CE_4 (not tested yet)

Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It runs on a variety of unix platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license.

Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers.

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Features

A small memory footprint suitable for memory-constrained environments – Dropbear can compile to a 110kB statically linked binary with uClibc on x86 (only minimal options selected)

• Dropbear server implements X11 forwarding, and authentication-agent forwarding for OpenSSH clients

• Can run from inetd or standalone

• Compatible with OpenSSH ~/.ssh/authorized_keys public key authentication

• The server, client, keygen, and key converter can be compiled into a single binary (like busybox)

• Features can easily be disabled when compiling to save space

• Multi-hop mode uses SSH TCP forwarding to tunnel through multiple SSH hosts in a single command. dbclient user1@hop1,user2@hop2,destination

UPDATE: fresh compiled and repackaged dropbear-2025.87_3.pet on 13 Mar 2025 22:00

There are problems with X11 forwarding with dropbear-2025-87_2 ! I am testing further.

I reverted to Version 2019.78 which is working exactly as it should

The dropbear-2025.87_3.pet has been recompiled and repackaged and attached to the first post.

Fixed the X11 forwarding.