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Description of problem:
TL;DR: ensure https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/2552 is implemented/backported, as legacy FTP dropbox will be decommissioned in favour of the new SFTP server.

This needs to be fixed or backported in the below RHEL releases:
- 9.0 GA
- 8.6 (GA)
- 8.5.z
- 8.4.z
- 8.2.z
- 7.9.z
- 6.10.z


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
n.a.


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. sosreport --upload --upload-protocol=sftp
1. sosreport --batch --case-id 02732787 --upload
2. sosreport --batch --upload


Actual results:
1. --upload-protocol does not exist
2. and 3. without providing credentials, dropbox anonymous FTP is used


Expected results:
1. option supported, default 'auto' points to uploading to the customer portal if credentials provided, or to the SFTP one if credentials are missing
2. and 3. without providing credentials, SFTP anonymous upload is used


Additional info:
python-pyexpect and python-requests are required for functionality; ideally we should ensure that:
- both are weak dependencies (on RHEL8)
- if either package is missing, the upload to SFTP will properly halt (see e.g. error message "Upload attempt failed: SFTP upload requires python3-pexpect, which is not currently installed")

(this will land in 8.6 gratis due to the rebase bug bz1998133)

Approval to z-streams to 8.2, 8.4 and 8.5 as the supported RHEL releases that still needs to support sos upload functionality to FTP.

Completion of this fix was done via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025610 , hence the Fixed-In-Version.

Adding BZ to 8.6 Errata as it is blocker+ .

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (sos bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2022:1998