ssh interactive shell not working

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Kyle A. Dawson wrote:
> 1) I do not know of any other bash installed at all.

Can you search your disks for 'bash.exe' and see if bashs other than the one
Cygwin version that you expect to find?  If there is more than one, delete
(or rename if you feel more comfortable with that) the others.

> 2) If I ssh to localhost,it works fine.  "ssh localhost". I get a prompt fine.

This makes me think that webmadeeasy != localhost.  How about if you try
"ssh webmadeeasy" from the W2K3 machine?

> 3) If I leave out the --login It works but I get a different prompt
> 		$ ssh myhost bash -i
> 		bash-3.2$

That would be expected.  Without "--login", you're not running a login shell
and you're not running the login scripts that typically set your prompt.

>     If I leave out the -k, I get no prompt but I am in, I can run commands, etc.

OK.  Hm, I don't know what that means, though it's a surprising result.
What inspired you to try that?


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