In some situation the path to the SFTP subsystem in sshd_config can be
configured incorrectly by the build process.
For example, if you do the following:
./configure
make
./configure --prefix=/opt/ssh
make
sudo make install
The installed sshd_config file will have
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/sftp-server
instead of
Subsystem sftp /opt/ssh/libexec/sftp-server
You can avoid this by issuing a make clean after the first make but this
does seem like unexpected behaviour. The following patch resolves this.
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 6762d573a..fac076b60 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ $(MANPAGES): $(MANPAGES_IN)
$(FIXPATHSCMD) $${manpage} | $(FIXALGORITHMSCMD) > $@; \
fi
-$(CONFIGFILES): $(CONFIGFILES_IN)
+$(CONFIGFILES): $(CONFIGFILES_IN) Makefile
conffile=`echo $@ | sed 's/.out$$//'`; \
$(FIXPATHSCMD) $(srcdir)/$${conffile} > $@
On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 at 08:31, Chris Rapier <rapier at psc.edu> wrote:> In some situation the path to the SFTP subsystem in sshd_config can be > configured incorrectly by the build process. >applied, thanks. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net) GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.