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Topic: dropbear running x3 is this normal?

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Post #1
beakmyn
28 Oct 2007, 19:01

I'm in the process of setting up dropbear with publickeyencryption  and I noticed the following:

  569 root        416 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear -s -p 22 
  570 root        408 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 50022 
  578 root        432 S   httpd -p 80 -h /www -r OpenWrt 
  597 nobody      440 S   /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --dhcp-range=lan,192.168.1.100,192.
  605 root        416 S   /usr/bin/matrixtunnel -A /etc/ssl/matrixtunnel.cert -
  759 root        548 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear -s -p 22 
  760 root        596 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear -s -p 22 
  761 root        508 S   -ash 
  763 root        416 R   ps

Why is dropbear running 3 times? I know I have it running running on 50022 but I don't understand why it's listed as running on port 22 3 times. Is there a way to stop this?

Post #2
fatbob
28 Oct 2007, 20:15

dropbear creates one new process instance for each login-shell. This is normal.

Post #3
beakmyn
29 Oct 2007, 01:04

That's what I was suspecting but wasn't sure as I've been changing settings in dropbear and I thought I might have inadvertently goofed something up. Thank you.

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