[WBEL-users] ssh environment question

[Whitebox]

Thanks to all. That explains what I needed.

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:57:10PM -0400, Whitebox wrote:
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>>yes, they are .bash_profile. I assume this is not actually executed 
>>unless I actually login whereas .bashrc is executed when my shell is 
>>called. Is this correct?
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>.bash_profile is run everything you start a login shell (the shell
>is invoked with "-l" is a good rule of thumb, I'm not sure if
>"login" actually does anything different).
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>Your .bashrc is run everytime a non-login interactive shell is
>started (according the the bash man page).  However, every
>.bash_profile I know of source .bashrc.  Just read the man page
>search for .bash_profile and/or .bashrc
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>There's a section of the sshd man page that pretty well describes
>the situation.  It's got a list of 9 steps, by concise summary is
>this:
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>Setup a minimal environment, based on the compile time options. Read
>the file ~/.ssh/environment (if that's allowed by the config), then
>run the scripts either ~/.ssh/rc or /etc/ssh/sshrc, finally the last
>step is to either run your shell or your command.  So your shell is
>never getting run, your command is just being run without giving you
>a login shell is my guess.
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>This command:
>ssh server '/bin/bash --login -c "export"'
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>	Should give you what you are looking for.  It gives you what you
>are looking for.  I've had similar problems and had to track this,
>and cron down before.
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>	Kirby
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>>Jesse wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Whitebox wrote:
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>>>>This should be an easy question for somebody. When I ssh into a box that
>>>>has custom bash environment ( full login ) and do an 'export' I get say
>>>>50 environment variables. but when I execute from another host ' ssh
>>>>server export', I only get a small subset of my custom shell environment
>>>>variables.
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>>>>Does anyone know how to change this? I would like to 'ssh server export'
>>>>and get all of my environment variables. Is it a flag in ssh that I 
>>>>missed?
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>>>One possible reason is that your custom environment variables are set in
>>>your .profile or .login (or /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d, or
>>>/etc/csh.login). Those are only executed when you actually login.
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>>>You move those variables to your .bashrc or .cshrc.
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>>>---
>>>Jesse <j@lumiere.net>
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