sshd, plink, bash and path problems

[Tim Shadel]

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Here's my setup:

Client:  Win2K box with Putty/Plink
Server: Win2K professional with cygwin/sshd (actually copssh, but it's 
just a minimal cygwin install)

I can login just fine.  I can use public key authentication fine.

Here's what I'd like to do:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 
mkdir -p /var/some/dir/that/does/not/exist

Nothing happens.  Here's something else I tried to see what's going on:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 
echo $PATH
/cygdrive/c/j2sdk...

Basically my entire Windows path prints out -- NOT my cygwin path.  I 
saw another post on this in a different context 
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01700.html), and I can see 
that it's a matter of commands getting executed when the login process 
happens.  So then I tried this:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 
source /etc/profile; echo $PATH
/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT

And got the output I expected.  BUT, the plink command is being issued 
by a program that I can't modify (apache's maven deploy plugin), so I 
wondered two things:

1. What's different between plink <host> <command> and plink <host> 
(which displays a prompt) that causes the magical "login" process to 
occur.  Is this a plink thing? a bash thing? a cygwin-version-of-either 
thing?

2. Is there a file (.rc something-or-other perhaps?) that I can create 
that will make the "source /etc/profile" call once plink connects, so I 
can have the right path when <command> happens?

Any help with this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim Shadel

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