SSH connection opens root filesystem instead of directory set on remote machine

[thekeith]

Whenever an SSH connection is opened it defaults the file browser to the root directory of the filesystem for some reason. Any attempt to change this on the server side is ineffective.

[bummoblizard]

What should be the expected behaviour? How did you configure the default directory on your server?

[thekeith]

• Expected behavior should be going to the user folder (home directory, in my case /Users/$USER)
• On the server I set an action in .zshrc to change directory on a new session, but in retrospect I’m not sure that would have worked anyway
• It’s only an issue as it forces the user to navigate from the root of the filesystem all the way to where they want to go; it could be a setting, with a default to ~

[bummoblizard]

This is indeed a bug. Code App is ignoring the remote working directory.

https://github.com/thebaselab/codeapp/blob/b5508054a8f2b70a93997bbc6a3afc71b7c39fb9/CodeApp/Managers/FileSystem/SFTP/SFTPFileSystemProvider.swift#L104-L105 Fix: In SFTPFileSystemProvider.swift, we should call libssh2'slibssh2_sftp_realpath with . as the argument to obtain the working directory and assign it to self.homePath.

[bummoblizard]

The changes I made in NMSSH: https://github.com/thebaselab/NMSSH/commit/2d800fca5d2da49baff1cbc061b275e33df70731

[bummoblizard]

This should work universally on different platforms as it is how the FreeBSD sftp command pwd works: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/6b635c74fd4135eaae68970bfc5aad9ae905fec7/crypto/openssh/sftp.c#L2237

[thekeith]

Did the changes make it to 1.4.7 or is it still to be released?

[bummoblizard]

Did the changes make it to 1.4.7 or is it still to be released?

It should be available on TestFlight later today.

[thekeith]

Resolved in latest build. Thanks!

[bummoblizard]

Because of #943, resolving home path is now an configurable option and is off by default.