Replace OpenSSH with DropBear

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Hi,

Running OSMC on a RPi here with great results. As you know these systems can be a bit cramped on RAM, and as far as I have experience it, the second most RAM consuming task on my RPi with OSMC besides kodi.bin is OpenSSH.

I replaced it with DropBear (Dropbear SSH) which is already available on the default package repositories, it’s basically a drop in replacement so no further configuration is needed, and because of its small memory footprint, it’s much more suited for small, embedded systems.

Regards

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We used to use Dropbear in the past on AppleTV and in very early stages of Raspbmc.

I prefer openssh-server for reliability and security. When using SCP, the openssh binaries are usually used anyway. I don’t think the benefit of a few MB of RAM is worth the change.

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