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Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?


Shankar Unni wrote on 2007-03-13:

I have a very odd situation here on my Win2K3 box.

I have sshd set up, using privilege separation. I can log in as a local user, but the environment I see is not the same as the environment I see when I log in on the main desktop.

Ping? Has anyone else seen anything like this?


Is there any other information I could generate that would help debug this?

I know sshd (on Linux, etc.) tries really hard *not* to source any of the standard setup files like /etc/profile, etc., and quite probably also forces a standard environment on children it spawns.

Is this what is going on here, too? Somehow the code ignores the system environment, and just copies some "well-known" subset of its environment to its children, or something?


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