environ problem in 3.8p1

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Mar 30 14:02:44 EST 2004


Damien Miller wrote:

> In his ignorance, on Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Damien Miller mistakenly wrote:
> 
> 
>>No, the protocol does not include a way to transmit more than the
>>terminal type ($TERM).
> 
> Markus pointed out that I am wrong: protocol 2 has a request to pass
> environment variables, which we don't implement.

There is now a patch to implement environment passing in:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815

The patch is against -current, but if you are lucky it should apply
against 3.8p1 too.

This is subject to change, but needs testing with other SSH implementations.

-d




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