Environment passing in Solaris 8 with later versions of SSH a nd U seLogin=yes

[Roberts-Thomson, James]

Damien,

>IIRC some platforms like the environment passed as arguments to 
>/bin/login rather than as traditional environment strings. What does 
>login's manpage say?

<quote>
SYNOPSIS
     login [ -p ]  [ -d device ]  [ -h hostname | [ terminal ]  |
     -r hostname ]  [   name  [ environ ]  ...  ]

...

The environment may be expanded  or  modified  by  supplying
additional  arguments  to login, either at execution time or
when login requests your login name. The arguments may  take
either  the  form  xxx  or  xxx=yyy.

...

Alternatively, you can pass the current environment by  sup-
plying  the  -p  flag to login. This flag indicates that all
currently defined environment variables should be passed, if
possible,  to  the  new  environment
</quote>

Basically, I can supply environment options, but passing "-p" should "just
work".

>If this is the case, it wouldn't be too change the invocation of login 
>to pass them. We already have code to manage argument lists (used by scp 
>and sftp).

Well, the execl function call to call login is identical in both versions
("working" and "nonworking"), so I doubt that is the issue.  I'm not sure if
I can fudge the calls to supply env variables on the command line, but could
give it a try...

James Roberts-Thomson
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