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

#include "tommath_private.h"
#ifdef BN_MP_LCM_C
/* LibTomMath, multiple-precision integer library -- Tom St Denis */
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense */

/* computes least common multiple as |a*b|/(a, b) */
mp_err mp_lcm(const mp_int *a, const mp_int *b, mp_int *c)
{
   mp_err  err;
   mp_int  t1, t2;


   if ((err = mp_init_multi(&t1, &t2, NULL)) != MP_OKAY) {
      return err;
   }

   /* t1 = get the GCD of the two inputs */
   if ((err = mp_gcd(a, b, &t1)) != MP_OKAY) {
      goto LBL_T;
   }

   /* divide the smallest by the GCD */
   if (mp_cmp_mag(a, b) == MP_LT) {
      /* store quotient in t2 such that t2 * b is the LCM */
      if ((err = mp_div(a, &t1, &t2, NULL)) != MP_OKAY) {
         goto LBL_T;
      }
      err = mp_mul(b, &t2, c);
   } else {
      /* store quotient in t2 such that t2 * a is the LCM */
      if ((err = mp_div(b, &t1, &t2, NULL)) != MP_OKAY) {
         goto LBL_T;
      }
      err = mp_mul(a, &t2, c);
   }

   /* fix the sign to positive */
   c->sign = MP_ZPOS;

LBL_T:
   mp_clear_multi(&t1, &t2, NULL);
   return err;
}
#endif