Comment 3 for bug 1437005

Yes, I'm certain that I hand-edited the file, feel free to close the bug. I
_assumed_ that the example file would be correct for the installed package,
silly me.

Cheers,

Paul

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:

> 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
>
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> Title:
> Default sshd_config file has bad path to sftp-server. Should be
> /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server, not /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
>
> Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Silly error, can't believe it wasn't found or reported earlier.
>
> SFTP wasn't working, auth.log showed "cannot stat /usr/libexec/openssh
> /sftp-server: No such file or directory"
>
> I checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /usr/share/doc/openssh-
> server/examples/sshd_config, which is apparently the source file. Both
> had the "libexec" path to the file.
>
> I ran "locate openssh/sftp-server" and got "/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-
> server"
>
> Corrected the path in the config file & all was well.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: openssh-server 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-46.77-generic 3.13.11-ckt15
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-46-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Thu Mar 26 11:40:13 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-24 (244 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140416.2)
> SourcePackage: openssh
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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