2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/run-ptest
index 3e725cf282..564c0c8256 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/run-ptest
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 export TEST_SHELL=sh
 
 cd regress
-make -k .OBJDIR=`pwd` .CURDIR=`pwd` tests \
+make -k .OBJDIR=`pwd` .CURDIR=`pwd` SUDO="sudo" tests \
         | sed -e 's/^skipped/SKIP: /g' -e 's/^ok /PASS: /g' -e 's/^failed/FAIL: /g'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_7.0p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_7.0p1.bb
index 105875a60d..67abe577b5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_7.0p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_7.0p1.bb
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ do_configure_prepend () {
         fi
 }
 
+do_compile_ptest() {
+        # skip regress/unittests/ binaries: this will silently skip
+        # unittests in run-ptests which is good because they are so slow.
+        oe_runmake regress/modpipe regress/setuid-allowed regress/netcat
+}
+
 do_install_append () {
         if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam', '', d)}" = "pam" ]; then
                 install -D -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/sshd ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/sshd