Command-line tool

dropbear

brew/dropbear

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Small SSH server/client for POSIX-based system

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install dropbear

Linux

brew install dropbear

Connect to a remote host

dbclient user@host

Connect to a remote host on [p]ort 2222

dbclient user@host -p 2222

Connect to a remote host using a specific [i]dentity key in dropbear format

dbclient -i path/to/key_file user@host

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