[Buildroot] Dropbear/SFTP

Willy Lambert lambert.willy at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 12:59:24 UTC 2013


2013/1/8 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Ted Wood,
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:54:25 -0000, Ted Wood wrote:
>> I am attempting to remotely debug application code on  my i586 system from
>> Eclipse.
>>
>> I can login using SSH, however it stops saying that there is no SFTP server
>> running on my target.
>>
>> I've tried installing open-ssh, I presume I need to initaiate the SFTP
>> server somehow, but I'm not sure how.
>
> The subject of your e-mail suggests you've tried using Dropbear.
> However, as you've probably noticed, Dropbear doesn't implement the
> SFTP protocol, so it is not possible to use Dropbear as a SFTP server.
>
> For now, the only option in Buildroot to get a SFTP server is to use
> OpenSSH. Just enable the package, disable Dropbear, and do a full
> rebuild of your Buildroot configuration. The Buildroot OpenSSH package
> automatically installs an init script that will start OpenSSH at boot
> time. Nothing special should be necessary.
>
> If you're interested, notice that we are currently developing a Eclipse
> plugin for Buildroot, which will help to build, remote execute and
> remote debug applications in the context of Buildroot. The
> documentation has not yet been fully written, but if you're interested,
> please let me know so that we can give you the initial starting points.
> We are very interested in getting some user feedback about those
> developments.
>

Even if not concerned by the thread, I'm interested to have a look at
this plugin.


> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
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