Inheriting environment - sshd server to shell child
Kevin Steves
stevesk at pobox.com
Thu Jan 2 13:04:46 EST 2003
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 06:47:07PM +0000, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> So I maintain environment variables. Init sets them via initscript in
> every process it spawns. A few are even set via kernel boot
> parameters and inherited by all of Init's progeny. Traditional logins
> work fine because I use the -p option on Login ("preserve
> environment"). Ssh via Openssh defeats the plan, though. Openssh
> would have me set those environment variables one place for every
> process _except_ shells spawned by sshd, but in each shell profile for
> shells spawned by sshd.
you are asking for a sshd login -p equivalent? obviously, right now
the default deny behaviour used for the environment is correct.
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