ref-manual: add a note to ssh-server-dropbear feature

Add a note regarding the 4.1 change to add openssh-sftp-server as a
recommends from ssh-server-dropbear.

(From yocto-docs rev: dd4775d666ca8309ef029fd329a248397bcdedc6)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Paul Eggleton
2022-10-06 15:06:40 +13:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent e6fb7f27f6
commit 32ba43072b

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@@ -322,6 +322,21 @@ these valid features is as follows:
- *ssh-server-dropbear:* Installs the Dropbear minimal SSH server.
.. note::
As of the 4.1 release, the ``ssh-server-dropbear`` feature also
recommends the ``openssh-sftp-server`` package, which by default
will be pulled into the image. This is because recent versions of
the OpenSSH ``scp`` client now use the SFTP protocol, and thus
require an SFTP server to be present to connect to. However, if
you wish to use the Dropbear ssh server `without` the SFTP server
installed, you can either remove ``ssh-server-dropbear`` from
``IMAGE_FEATURES`` and add ``dropbear`` to :term:`IMAGE_INSTALL`
instead, or alternatively still use the feature but set
:term:`BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS` as follows::
BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "openssh-sftp-server"
- *ssh-server-openssh:* Installs the OpenSSH SSH server, which is more
full-featured than Dropbear. Note that if both the OpenSSH SSH server
and the Dropbear minimal SSH server are present in