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_OPTIONS_H
#define DROPBEAR_OPTIONS_H

/* 
            > > > Don't edit this file any more! < < <
            
Local compile-time configuration should be defined in localoptions.h
in the build directory.
See default_options.h.in for a description of the available options.
*/

/* Some configuration options or checks depend on system config */
#include "config.h"

#ifdef LOCALOPTIONS_H_EXISTS
#include "localoptions.h"
#endif

/* default_options.h is processed to add #ifndef guards */
#include "default_options_guard.h"

/* Some other defines that mostly should be left alone are defined
 * in sysoptions.h */
#include "sysoptions.h"

#endif /* DROPBEAR_OPTIONS_H */