dropbear (SSH server and client) Dropbear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers. Please note that this package conflicts with OpenSSH's scp binary. Installing this package will overwrite this file with a symbolic link to the dropbearmulti binary. If you later remove dropbear, scp will no longer work.