On 3/2/2011 2:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 3/1/2011 10:14 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>> I generally set most of my environment variables in the System control
>> panel for my user, instead of in my .bashrc/.zshrc
>>
>> I noticed that when I log in to Cygwin via ssh, these environment
>> variables are not available.
>>
>> Would this be considered a misfeature?
>
> No, it's considered a security feature. The environment for OpenSSH is
> stripped to the basics so as to not let lots of information about the
> remote
> system slip through to the client. If there's stuff you want in your
> OpenSSH
> session that you're not getting now, a small script that you can run after
> login is the prescribed solution.
>
Or change /etc/sshd_config on the server and enable
PermitUserEnvironment yes
and then you can add a file on the server:
~/.ssh/environment
that contains the envvars you want to sshd to set for incoming
connections authenticated as you, and the desired values.
Note that 'man sshd_config' warns about this option, as it can be exploited.
See here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00246.html
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Chuck
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