UPDATE Re: Missing environment variables when ssh'ing into Windows machine
cygwin@kosowsky.org
cygwin@kosowsky.org
Mon Jan 6 01:54:00 GMT 2020
cygwin@kosowsky.org wrote at about 10:45:51 -0500 on Friday, January 3, 2020:
> cygwin@kosowsky.org wrote at about 01:59:19 -0500 on Friday, January 3, 2020:
> >
> > The Windows variables $USERNAME, $USERPROFILE and $USERDOMAIN are set properly
> > when opening a cygwin bash shell on a Windows 10 machine.
> >
> > However when I *ssh* into that same machine (under the same user name),
> > the variables are unset in the bash shell.
> >
> > More generally, it seems that none of my Windows User variables are
> > set under a remote ssh bash shell while they are all inherited properly
> > when opening a cygwin bash shell directly on the machine.
> >
> > I have not had that problem in the past on my other (older) Windows
> > machine
> > The only differences that come to mind are:
> > 1. The other machine is Win7 and not Win10
> > 2. On this (Win10) machine I installed cygwin as a non-admin while the
> > Win7 machine was installed with admin privileges
> > 3. Because of #2, I start ssh on the Win 10 machine by running
> > /usr/sbin/sshd manually as a user, while on Win 7, I am able to
> > start sshd as a service, running as SYSTEM
> > 4. This (Win10) machine doesn't have an /etc/passwd file whereas the
> > Win7 machine does.
> >
> > I am assuming that #3 may be the source of the problem...
> >
> > Still seems strange that these seemingly very basic Windows variables
> > are not available under ssh.
> >
> > Any way to fix this?
> >
>
> Said another way, assuming that the issue is my non-admin Cygwin
> install and my attendant need to run 'sshd' manually rather than as
> service, what can I do to best 'fake' running 'sshd' as a service that
> will allow it to load the environment variables automatically.
>
> For 'cleanliness' and 'consistency' purposes, I would like to do that
> as a wrapper around the call to 'sshd' rather than by tampering with
> /etc/sshd_config and /etc/sshd_config or by manually recreating and exporting the
> Windows variables in .bashrc or .bash_profile. In other words, I want
> to keep my standard installation configuration as clean and unchanged
> as possible.
>
I verified that the difference is solely related to whether sshd is
started directly by calling /usr/bin/sshd or by starting the service
via 'cygrunsrv -S sshd' -- the former doesn't set the environment
variables, while the latter does!
Even if both are run with admin privileges!
Really wish I knew what 'cygrunsrv' does differently...
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