ControlMaster cwd is not /

[Bert Wesarg]

Dear all,

see

    https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1902

for one of the first reports and also a reason why it is currently not accepted.

Best,
Bert

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:48 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> raf wrote in
>  <20210331075157.sgfbkvofdx6dgiyi at raf.org>:
>  |On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:33:43AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdao\
>  |den.eu> wrote:
>  |> I just stumbled over the fact that the ControlMaster process does
>  |> not do "cd /" but remains where the ssh client was invoked.  Is
>  |> this intentional, or should i open a bug report on that?
>  |>
>  |> [snip]
>  ...
>  |I reported this too a little while ago and there was no
>  |interest. But it is a pain when your cwd is a USB stick
>  |that you want to umount. I've created a pull request
>
> Yeah, and encrypted volumes (in my case).
>
>  |that fixes it:
>  |
>  |  https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/239
>
> That is great!  I had not looked at github.  (That pull i could
> not have found by then?)
>
>  |But it's failing checks on 4 Ubuntu kitchensink/sk
>  |versions.
>  |
>  |This page shows the error message:
>  |
>  |  https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/actions/runs/704178803
>  |
>  |  No files were found with the provided path:
>  |  regress/*.log regress/valgrind-out/. No artifacts
>  |  will be uploaded.
>
> I am not at github so cannot see the log, but since configure
> failed also locally, a "autoreconf" seems to fix it.  After that:
>
>   make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/x/openssh.tar_bomb_git/regress'
>   unit tests passed
>   echo all tests passed
>   all tests passed
>
> (8.5p1 plus your patch.)
> It would be nice if that patch made it in.
>
> Thanks, and Ciao from Germany,
>
> --steffen
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