From b2186b2737a971872b1ff5b6050b36cf523d8e5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Vollgraf <30869947+rvollgraf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:13:41 +0200
Subject: pass on sever process environment to child processes (option -e)
 (#118)

---
 dropbear.8 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'dropbear.8')

diff --git a/dropbear.8 b/dropbear.8
index 0348e26..ad9f0ee 100644
--- a/dropbear.8
+++ b/dropbear.8
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ Don't fork into background.
 .B \-E
 Log to standard error rather than syslog.
 .TP
+.B \-e
+Pass on the server environment to all child processes. This is required, for example,
+if dropbear is launched on the fly from a SLURM workload manager. The enviroment is not
+passed by default. Note that this can be a potential security risk.
+.TP
 .B \-m
 Don't display the message of the day on login.
 .TP
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