problem with environment detecting

Carson Gaspar carson at taltos.org
Wed Mar 13 13:13:47 EST 2002


ssh host 'echo foo'

invokes

shell -c 'echo foo'

under the covers. Under most shells, the login environment will _not_ be 
sourced.

ssh host

invokes

-shell

The magic leading - in ARGV[0] causes the shell to read it's login 
environment.

This is the same behaviour as rsh/rlogin.

-- 
Carson Gaspar - carson at taltos.org
Queen Trapped in a Butch Body




More information about the openssh-unix-dev mailing list