I'm trying to figure out how sshd comes up with the PATH for the initial environment. Currently I get the Windows sytem PATH (converted to POSIX) and then /bin appended. This is no good, at least /bin should be at the beginning of that PATH.
I've not been able to change this system-wide so far. Apparently sshd has been built on a machine where /etc/default/login wasn't present, at least it doesn't appear to try to read that file (or any other system file) for setting up the initial environment. The /etc/sshrc is run if I create it, but you can't set any environment variables from within it. I don't want to enable user environments. I think it would be nice if there was a system file that could set the initial environment for sshd, maybe setting external_path_file to /etc/ssh_environment fits in better with the default Cygwin /etc layout, though. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple