Dropbear/socks authentication options

I want to allow some devices to open http proxies on a openwrt modem, to reach external wan. I already have the road-warrior wireguard setup, this is for devices that only have unauthenticated socks options, but can setup ssh tunnels. Exploring some options...

  1. create new users and lock the accounts. (i trust the users to not hunt for local exploits, but i don't want to have to trust the users :slight_smile: any issue providing non-admin user accounts on openwrt?)

  2. option1 plus, using authorized_keys options e.g. command="/bin/false",no-pty,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,permitopen="192.0.2.10:1234" key.... having a hard time finding if dropbear support any of those.

  3. A socks proxy that i can authenticate in some parallel way instead of socks auth?

  4. pppossh. Does this provide something I will be missing on the other options if all I care is about is adhoc http proxying? [...also see the guide adds keys for root user. Anyone knows why? i'm assuming it was just to keep the guide shorter?]