Load hostkeys before daemon(), since daemon()'s chdir("/") will prevent us

finding keys in $PWD.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/svr-main.c b/svr-main.c
index a14c6e6..e228acf 100644
--- a/svr-main.c
+++ b/svr-main.c
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ void main_noinetd() {
 	int childsock;
 	int childpipe[2];
 
+	// Note: commonsetup() must happen before we daemon()ise. Otherwise
+	// daemon() will chdir("/"), and we won't be able to find local-dir hostkeys.
+	commonsetup();
+
 	/* fork */
 	if (svr_opts.forkbg) {
 		int closefds = 0;
@@ -136,8 +140,6 @@ void main_noinetd() {
 		}
 	}
 
-	commonsetup();
-
 	/* should be done after syslog is working */
 	if (svr_opts.forkbg) {
 		dropbear_log(LOG_INFO, "Running in background");