SSH2 PATH problem

[Tim Rice]

Another data point.
I did a truss of sshd while doing a "ssh -2 sun1 'echo $PATH'" from
another machine
This part looked strange. Maybe it will help, maybe not.
...
26814:  fcntl(9, F_DUP2FD, 0x00000000)                  = 0
26814:  fcntl(9, F_DUP2FD, 0x00000001)                  = 1
26814:  fcntl(11, F_DUP2FD, 0x00000002)                 = 2
26814:  stat64("/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", 0xEFFFE918) = 0
26814:  door_info(4, 0xEFFFDCA8)                        = 0
26814:  door_call(4, 0xEFFFDC90)                        = 0
26814:  open("/var/adm/lastlog", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0444)  = 6
26814:  llseek(6, 868, SEEK_SET)                        = 868
26814:  time()                                          = 982551514
26814:      Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0xEF4B361C
26814:        siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000005
26814:      Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
26814:        siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000005
26814:          *** process killed ***
26784:      Received signal #18, SIGCLD [caught]
26784:        siginfo: SIGCLD CLD_KILLED pid=26814 status=0x000B
26784:  sigaction(SIGCLD, 0x00000000, 0xEFFFEF70)       = 0
26784:  setcontext(0xEFFFF0F0)
26784:  getsockname(8, 0xEFFFF120, 0xEFFFF11C, 1)       = 0
26784:  setsockopt(8, 0, 3, 0xEFFFF294, 4, 1)           = 0
26784:  close(9)                                        = 0
26784:  close(11)                                       = 0
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