WHAT IS THIS?
BebboSSH is an SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems by Stefan "Bebbo"
Franke. This archive is its port to
AROS aarch64 (the Raspberry Pi port of AROS).
With it you can log in to an AROS machine from any SSH client, run
commands, and copy files with scp and sftp; the native clients connect
from AROS to other SSH servers. The original 68k version is
comm/net/bebbossh.lha;
the AROS i386 build is comm/net/bebbossh.i386-aros.lha,
the AROS x86_64 build is comm/net/bebbossh.x86_64-aros.lha.
PROGRAMS
bebbosshd SSH2 server: remote commands, SFTP, SCP, TCP port
forwarding (direct-tcpip), password and public-key login
bebbossh SSH2 client, with -L local port forwarding
bebboscp SCP client
bebbosshkeygen Ed25519 key generator
Algorithms: curve25519-sha256 key exchange, ssh-ed25519 host and user
keys, aes128-gcm@openssh.com and chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com ciphers.
REQUIREMENTS
- AROS for the Raspberry Pi, aarch64. Tested on a Raspberry Pi 400
with the raspi-aarch64 build of 2026-09-12 and its Ethernet.
- A configured TCP/IP stack (AROSTCP, bsdsocket.library).
- No extra libraries: the crypto code is linked into each program.
CONTENTS
BebboSSH/bebbosshd, bebbossh, bebboscp, bebbosshkeygen
BebboSSH/sshd_config.example, passwd.example
BebboSSH/README.AROS.txt install and configuration guide
BebboSSH/README.md, AROS_PORTING.md, docs/, scripts/
BebboSSH/COPYING, LICENSE license texts (GNU GPL v3)
BebboSSH/SHA256SUMS checksums of the files above
INSTALLATION
1. Extract the archive to the system volume, SYS:. On the Pi image
SYS: is a FAT volume: protect reports an error there, which can be
ignored, the programs still run.
2. In an AROS Shell, create the configuration and a host key. The
throwaway key first creates the random seed (see README.AROS.txt,
Random Numbers):
cd SYS:BebboSSH
copy sshd_config.example sshd_config
copy passwd.example passwd
bebbosshkeygen -f T:seed_key
delete T:seed_key T:seed_key.pub
bebbosshkeygen -f ssh_host_ed25519_key
3. Edit passwd: one "username password" pair per line. The test/test
entry of the example is for a first test only; replace it.
4. Start the server:
stack 262144
bebbosshd
5. From another machine: ssh username@<address of the AROS machine>
To start the network and the server at boot, AROSTCP must start at
boot (ENVARC:AROSTCP/AutoRun containing True); then start the server
from S:User-Startup a few seconds later. The scripts used on the Pi
400 are in BebboSSH/docs/AROS_AARCH64_RELEASE.md (Autostart).
To call the clients from anywhere, copy bebbossh, bebboscp and
bebbosshkeygen to C:. Keep bebbosshd in its own directory: the example
configuration finds its files through PROGDIR:.
CONFIGURATION
bebbosshd reads ENVARC:ssh/sshd_config if it exists, otherwise
PROGDIR:sshd_config. The main directives (the example sets all but
Ciphers and AllowTcpForwarding, which keep their defaults):
Port 22 TCP port
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 address to listen on (0.0.0.0 = all)
HostKey PROGDIR:ssh_host_ed25519_key
Passwords PROGDIR:passwd
HomeDir DH0: start directory of commands and SFTP
Stack 262144 stack of command tasks (default 1 MiB)
DebugLevel 1 log level: 0 none to 8 ultra, or a name such
as error or debug
SendNoop some keepalive messages to idle sessions
Ciphers aes128-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com
ciphers offered (both by default)
AllowTcpForwarding yes direct-tcpip forwarding (ssh -L); no refuses it
Command-line options override the file: -p port, -A password file,
-K host key, -H home directory, -v log level (for example -v5).
Public-key login reads ENVARC:.ssh/authorized_keys (OpenSSH format,
one key per line). README.AROS.txt describes every file in detail.
USAGE
From a PC with OpenSSH:
ssh user@aros-host version
scp file.txt user@aros-host:SYS:
sftp user@aros-host
From AROS:
bebbossh user@host
bebbossh -i SYS:keys/id_ed25519 user@host command
bebbossh -L 8080:localhost:80 user@host
bebboscp localfile user@host:remotefile
bebbosshkeygen -f SYS:keys/id_ed25519
The first connection to a host asks, in a console window, whether to
trust its key: answer yes. The key is then kept in
ENVARC:.ssh/known_hosts. Without a console (for example in a remote
command) an unknown host is refused. A host whose key differs from the
stored one is always refused with a warning; if the change is
expected, remove its line from known_hosts.
KNOWN LIMITS
- No full interactive PTY programs: the interactive shell runs simple
commands, and programs that read their input are rejected with exit
status 2.
- No redirection or pipes (>, <, |) in remote commands.
- A command typed in an interactive session runs inside the server:
other connections wait until it ends, and Ctrl-C does not stop it.
Run long commands as "ssh host command", which runs them in a
separate task.
- A remote command still running after 30 seconds gets a timeout
notice and exit status 124, but it keeps running until it ends.
- On the Raspberry Pi 400, a server logging at debug level (-v5) into
a console window during heavy transfers froze the system. Keep the
default log level there.
- OpenSSH "put -p" sets the file time before it closes the file, and
AROS updates the date on close, so that time is not kept.
- passwd.example contains a test password: change it.
WHAT IS NEW IN 1.0.7
- 1.0.6 refused password logins from clients that send SSH_MSG_IGNORE
before the password, as PuTTY, plink, pscp, psftp and WinSCP do;
1.0.7 accepts them. Updating is recommended.
- Keys and session secrets come from a SHA-512 entropy pool with a seed
file, ENVARC:.ssh/random_seed, ported from bebbossh 1.46.1 by Matthias
Muench. README.AROS.txt (Random Numbers) explains the seed.
- More bounds checks in the SFTP server, in public-key login and in the
clients; bebbosshkeygen checks its writes and wipes its secrets.
- bebbosshkeygen shows its questions at a console and waits for the
answer; it took the command line as its first answer.
- AllowTcpForwarding off (or any unknown value) refuses forwarding;
1.0.6 refused it only with no, false and 0.
TESTED
On a Raspberry Pi 400 with the programs of this archive: OpenSSH ssh,
scp and sftp; 100 logins in a row; 80 file transfers without pauses;
4 MiB copies with both ciphers; uploads up to 16 MiB; two servers at
once; connections dropped during commands; Ctrl-C on an idle server,
during a command and while a dropped connection's command still
runs, each followed by a restart; the login and host key checks of
this release, also a password login as PuTTY sends it; the native
clients over loopback.
SOURCE AND LICENSE
GNU GPL v3 or later (see COPYING). Source of this release:
https://github.com/kaffeine1/bebbossh-aros/tree/v1.0.7-aros-aarch64
Original BebboSSH: https://franke.ms/git/bebbo/bebbossh
Bug reports: https://github.com/kaffeine1/bebbossh-aros/issues
Port by Michele Dipace <michele.dipace@kaffeine.net>.
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