ax10-dropbear

⚡ Just want it working, not the source? Prebuilt binaries + a one-command install are at archer-boot.pages.dev.

Dropbear SSH for the TP-Link Archer AX10, listening on port 22, supervised by ax10-svc. Separate from the lifeline dropbear that boot.sh starts on :2222.

Part of the archer-ax10 project. Depends on ax10-svc.

Install

opkg install ax10-dropbear

Registers dropbear -p 22 -R -E with ax10-svc (foreground; init keeps it alive). Log in with your web-GUI password — see the archer-ax10 README.

Built from source

The data/opt/ax10-dropbear/dropbear binary is built from source in CI with the shared newstack glibc-2.26 toolchain: build/build.sh pulls the official dropbear 2019.78 tarball (mirrored to this repo's Releases so no third-party URL is needed) and configures it --disable-zlib --disable-wtmp --disable-lastlog. This clean upstream build deliberately bypasses the TP-Link MAC-based pre-auth lockout baked into the router's stock dropbear — which is why the original was named dropbear_vanilla. Validated on the router via a real SSH client.

License

MIT for the packaging (see LICENSE). Dropbear itself is under its own MIT-style license — see THIRD-PARTY.md.