[Bug 387091] Re: openssh-server should broadcast availability via avahi

[Bruno Nova]

It would be really nice if openssh-server would publish via Avahi the SSH and SFTP services by default.
Examples of both services are provided in /usr/share/doc/avahi-daemon/examples/.

Publishing the SFTP service would be great because Nautilus (and other
file managers, I suppose) lists, in it's Network "folder", all computers
that are publishing that service, allowing to easily connect to those
computers via SFTP and transfer files, much like Samba (no guest access,
though).

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Title:
  openssh-server should broadcast availability via avahi

Status in “openssh” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openssh” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “openssh” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Avahi has support to advertise to a network different running
  services.  Currently openssh doesn't advertise itself dynamically or
  statically when installed.

  It can be done statically by copying the example file from
  /usr/share/doc/avahi-daemon/examples to /etc/avahi/services or by
  using the avahi-publish command.  avahi-publish could be ran from the
  SSH init script, or this service file can be installed by the openssh-
  server package.

  This can be done dynamically by patching openssh, but there would have
  to be a buy in from upstream to do this.

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