On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:41:15 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 15:08 +0100, Andy Robertson wrote:
>> We have users on boxen who are SSH-ing in to our z/OS system to run a
>> program that WTORs to the console and sets a simple return code based on the
>> reply.
>>
>> We put the program that does the WTOR on a private directory in the z/OS
>> filesystem.
>>
>> At the moment, when the SSH is issued from a box, the process that starts up
>> on z/OS has only the standard directories in its PATH
>>
>> Is there any way to add our aforementioned private directory to the PATH for
>> SSH users??
>> I'm sorry if i've missed an obvious solution: been delving into this a few
>> days now . ..
>
>They SSH into z/OS UNIX and get a UNIX shell prompt? If so, then just
>set the PATH for their shell prompt using the appropriate mechanism. For
>the normal IBM /bin/sh, that would be ~/.profile . That is, the
>".profile" file in the user's home directory.
>
>export PATH=${PATH}:/new/sub/directory
>
My experience, with Solaris hosts, not z/OS, it that if I supply a
command on the ssh line, sshd runs a non-login shell:
504 $ ssh -X u...@solaris 'echo $SHELL; pwd; echo $PATH'
u...@solaris's password:
/usr/bin/ksh
$HOME # (obfuscated)
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
I think this is goodness. When I want merely to issue a remote command,
I don't want the overhead of ~/.profile getting in the way. And when
I distribute a script that runs a command via ssh, I certainly don't
want the customer's ~/profile interfering.
I've resigned myself to qualifying paths in ssh commands.
>Now, if you have some other requirement, such as setting the PATH
>globally for all SSH users and only SSH users, you could try code
>in /etc/profile such as:
>
>set . $(ps -o args -p $PPID)
>case "$3" in
>*sshd*) export PATH=$PATH:/special/ssh/sub/directory;;
>esac
>
I suspect none of this works when sshd executes a non-login shell.
Can the OP create aliases or scripts on the various boxen to issue
the command with a qualified path?
-- gil
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