setting current dir of remote shell

[Darren Tucker]

Dave Yost wrote:
> I assume you mean
> 
>   ssh -t someserver "cd $(pwd) && exec \$0 -l"
> 
> This works well enough that I've updated yostupload to use it.
> http://Yost.com/computers/yostupload
> 
> But is this the final word for ssh?

> Should there be a more formal
> facility that works for shells that don't support -l ?

I don't think so.  There's no mechanism in the protocol to explicitly
specify the working directory on the server.

There was one proposed on the IETF working group list but one problem is
it would allow a user with a restricted shell to bypass the restriction
on changing directories (and sshd has no reliable way of knowing a shell
is restricted and preventing it).

As Peter suggested you could use a "CWD" environment variable or similar
passed over the SSH connection but that would still have the same problem.

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