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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:
>
> > I already compiled it, for glibc 2.2.5 (the same library needed for
> > Opera) or later.  It is part of the dropbear package, which also
> > includes dbclient, smaller than ssh and works as well for me.
> >
> > http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/dropbear-0.49-glibc225.tgz (I compiled
> > and posted this just over a year ago so may not be the latest version,
> > but it works fine).
> >
> > scp is 20K, dbclient 115K (for some reason I have it in /usr/local/bin
> > but symlinked to /usr/bin).  Both in the same package.   Do you want
> > dbclient.1 posted as well, or the README?  I can make a larger package.
> > README speaks of ssh authorized keys.  Steven's uclibc ssh is 285K.

I also have a 315K pscp that I compiled a year ago.
scp has only libc and ld-linux as dependencies.

> Sindi to the rescue again. Yes, I should've searched the archive first,
> and I do remember seeing something about dropbear on your site. Installing
> your package would be alot simpler than the routine I went through to
> excise needed bits from Slack9. I'll definitely be using your package once
> it comes to installing BL3 on the real thing.
>
> Don't think I'll need either dbclient.1 (not even sure what it is or does)
> or the README. Thanks for your input.

man page and README for dbclient.  I use dbclient the same way as ssh.

I compiled only dbclient and scp, not dropbear, dropbearkey (there are man 
pages for these two as well) or dropbearconvert.  I stripped the binary.
I don't recall if I configured without zlib to make it even smaller.

dropbear must be similar to sshd.

Sindi

> James