Add /usr/sbin and /sbin to default root PATH When dropbear is used in a very restricted environment (such as in a initrd), the default user shell is often also very restricted and doesn't take care of setting the PATH so the user ends up with the PATH set by dropbear. Unfortunately, dropbear always sets "/usr/bin:/bin" as default PATH even for the root user which should have /usr/sbin and /sbin too. For a concrete instance of this problem, see the "Remote Unlocking" section in this tutorial: https://paxswill.com/blog/2013/11/04/encrypted-raspberry-pi/ It speaks of a bug in the initramfs script because it's written "blkid" instead of "/sbin/blkid"... this is just because the scripts from the initramfs do not expect to have a PATH without the sbin directories and because dropbear is not setting the PATH appropriately for the root user. I'm thus suggesting to use the attached patch to fix this misbehaviour (I did not test it, but it's easy enough). It might seem anecdotic but multiple Kali users have been bitten by this. From https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903403

#ifndef DROPBEAR_ECDSA_H_
#define DROPBEAR_ECDSA_H_

#include "includes.h"
#include "buffer.h"
#include "signkey.h"

#if DROPBEAR_ECDSA

/* prefer 256 or 384 since those are SHOULD for
   draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-kex-sha2.txt */
#if DROPBEAR_ECC_256
#define ECDSA_DEFAULT_SIZE 256
#elif DROPBEAR_ECC_384
#define ECDSA_DEFAULT_SIZE 384
#elif DROPBEAR_ECC_521
#define ECDSA_DEFAULT_SIZE 521
#else
#error ECDSA cannot be enabled without enabling at least one size (256, 384, 521)
#endif

ecc_key *gen_ecdsa_priv_key(unsigned int bit_size);
ecc_key *buf_get_ecdsa_pub_key(buffer* buf);
ecc_key *buf_get_ecdsa_priv_key(buffer *buf);
void buf_put_ecdsa_pub_key(buffer *buf, ecc_key *key);
void buf_put_ecdsa_priv_key(buffer *buf, ecc_key *key);
enum signkey_type ecdsa_signkey_type(const ecc_key * key);

void buf_put_ecdsa_sign(buffer *buf, const ecc_key *key, const buffer *data_buf);
int buf_ecdsa_verify(buffer *buf, const ecc_key *key, const buffer *data_buf);
/* Returns 1 on success */
int signkey_is_ecdsa(enum signkey_type type);

#endif

#endif /* DROPBEAR_ECDSA_H_ */