Hi, On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 07:33:14AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > Am Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 07:23:09PM +0100 schrieb Ian Abbott: > > Hi there, > > > > Since scp now defaults to using the SFTP protocol which is not built in to > > dropbear, I thought I'd configure my platform to enable OPENSSH_SFTP_SERVER, > > but I ran into a 'gotcha'. The server gets installed as > > "/usr/sbin/sftp-server" (and `--libexecdir` is configured as "/usr/sbin"), > > This happens in the OpenSSH package, where libexecdir is configured as > /usr/sbin since 2003 … wow. > > > but dropbear looks for it at "/usr/libexec/sftp-server". > > Yes. > > > The path to the sftp-server can be set in dropbear by defining the > > `SFTPSERVER_PATH` macro in "localoptions.h" file (constructed by > > "rules/dropbear.make"). That is not currently done, but is easy enough to > > add. I was wondering whether it should be made configurable by a new option > > in "rules/dropbear.in" or not (using "/usr/sbin/sftp-server" as the default > > value). > > I would tend to hardcode it into rules/dropbear.make … I don't see a > reason to have that as configurable menu option, do you? Because we > probably won't change the path in openssh package, and to my knowledge > there's no alternative to the one from openssh?
I agree. No need for an option. > Care to send a patch? That would be great. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
