Allow alternate sftp-server paths for client connections #1296
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This PR allows the client to select an alternate path for clients to connect sftp to.
A usage of this SSH facility is to use alternate sftp-servers or to do privilege escalation on systems that support it, the OpenSSH SFTP tool supports this with the
-s
flag.Usage (in OpenSSH SFTP):
sftp -s "/usr/bin/sudo /usr/libexec/sftp-server" -p 22 frylock@192.168.100.100
Usage in SSH2 lib: