This is peculiar, because I don't believe we've ever written it out with the upstream libexec path. Yes, the examples file shows it as libexec, but we've written out "Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server" for new installations since 2005.
Is it possible that you had hand-edited your sshd_config at some point? ** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1437005 Title: Default sshd_config file has bad path to sftp-server. Should be /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server, not /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/1437005/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs