On 2006-03-13 20:14:33 +0000 (Mon, Mar), Jorge Almeida wrote: > Anyone knows a way to pass an environment variable to a openssh command? > I doubt there is a way, but who knows... > I want something like this: > myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar > This would execute a command with argument "whatever". The problem is that I > want to authenticate via a cryptographic key allowing only this command, > i.e., the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of myuser at remotebox has a line > command="~/bin/mycommand $myvar" <public-key> > This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of > course, if I could pass a variable to remotebox, the line might be just > command="~/bin/mycommand" <public-key> > and the ssh command would be > myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand > (the program itself would use the value of $myvar) > > Any idea?
Stdin? echo "$myvar" | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand ? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by "grep -i virus $MESSAGE" Trust me.
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