Hi Corinna...
But when the process is spawned, it has the environment of SYSTEM or the
user running the sshd daemon instead of the target user. Is it possible to
change that?
For now, I just set the ~/.ssh/environment to fix things up. But that
requires maintaining two copies of my environment definitions...one for
win2k and one for sshd.
Thanks,
...Karl
>From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: openSSH under cygwin fix
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:08:13 +0200
>
>On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:41:19PM +0100, Gaz Jones wrote:
> > Hi, first, thanks for the great cygwin and for the work on
> > the openSSH port. I _think_ I may have found a problem (I
> > may not have, have only been playing around with the
> > code so far :), in that the PATH under Windows doesn't
> > seem to be getting set after I log in. The relevant
> > lines are in session.c (1205 - 1213):
> >
> > # ifndef HAVE_CYGWIN
> > /*
> > * There's no standard path on Windows. The path contains
> > * important components pointing to the system directories,
> > * needed for loading shared libraries. So the path better
> > * remains intact here.
> > */
> > child_set_env(&env, &envsize, "PATH", _PATH_STDPATH);
> > # endif /* HAVE_CYGWIN */
> >
> > Changing the # endif line to:
> >
> > #else
> > child_set_env(&env, &envsize, "PATH", getenv("PATH"));
> > #endif /* HAVE_CYGWIN */
> >
> > fixes this. This could be a result of my setting up a very bare
> > bones cygwin setup (testing to see how little I need to have a
> > running SSH setup) and using cmd.exe as my shell.
>
>I appreciate your effort but I'm surprised that your above
>fix should change anything. If you examine session.c again,
>you will find a few lines above the following code:
>
>=== SNIP ===
>#ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN
> /*
> * The Windows environment contains some setting which are
> * important for a running system. They must not be dropped.
> */
> copy_environment(&env, &envsize);
>#endif
>=== SNAP ===
>
>This code copies the whole environment. Call `ssh -v'. That will
>print the environment which is inherited to the shell. You will
>have to start sshd with -d option, though.
>
> > I also found that when using sftp-server, if you didn't use
> > sh (or a typical UNIX shell I assume), I couldn't sftp to the
> > server - to fix this I added some code that would check for
>
>Yep, that's a cmd problem. Any UNIX shell works.
>
> > an environment variable called NEWSHELL and would use that
> > as the shell if it was specified. Hence, when using sftp I
> > can use sh, but with SSH I can use cmd.exe. I can mail the
> > few extra lines of code for this if you want.
>
>Hmm, I'm not quite sure if the OpenSSH maintainers will like
>that patch. If you really want to get it into the official
>OpenSSH sources I suggest sending the patch to the mailing list
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to avoid any special
>Cygwin code which is not in the official sources.
>
>Corinna
>
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