AIX reading /etc/environment out of step.

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:09:13PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> I was discussing with Don about a private topic..and while skimming the
> code I noticed that during a 'ssh mouring at site ls'  the /etc/environment
> is *ONLY* read if the remote machine is an AIX box.  This is undocumented
> and I'm wondering if someone using AIX could explain WHY it exists in the
> session.c:do_child()?  No other OS has this.  I don't see why AIX should
> require it.

All other ways to log into AIX read this.  So by doing it you're easing
switchover from rlogin/whatever to ssh.

gert
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