Nov 20 2008
Environment Variables and SSH
Very few environment variables are defined when connecting to a remote host with an SSH authorized key. # ssh localhost env SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=127.0.0.1 53816 22 USER=dave MAIL=/var/mail/dave PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games PWD=/home/dave LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/dave LOGNAME=dave SSH_CONNECTION=127.0.0.1 53816 127.0.0.1 22 _=/usr/bin/env To run a program calling libs from an unusual location, we’d need to redefine the [...]