Am 2012-10-11 10:38, schrieb Bernd:
Hi,

I've got to port some shell scripts which rely on env vars. One
amongst those is $SSH_CLIENT.

On OpenBSD 5.1 machines, I don't get what I'd assume to get:

# echo $SSH_CLIENT

It returns just a blank line.

Logged in as normal user, became root via 'su -'. That triggers mentioned behavior, just using 'su' keeps it behaving as expected.

Thanks,

Bernd

I re-tested this on an older development machine, running OpenBSD 4.6:

# echo $SSH_CLIENT
123.45.67.89 34402 22

Is that an intended change in behavior (security related)? I didn't
find a changelog entry, neither documentation.

Thanks,

Bernd

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